| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: I am not yet able to tackle them. For me it is my chief o' works;
hence probably not so for others, since it only means that I have
here attacked the greatest difficulties. But some chapters towards
the end: three in particular - I do think come off. I find them
stirring, dramatic, and not unpoetical. We shall see, however; as
like as not, the effort will be more obvious than the success.
For, of course, I strung myself hard to carry it out. The next
will come easier, and possibly be more popular. I believe in the
covering of much paper, each time with a definite and not too
difficult artistic purpose; and then, from time to time, drawing
oneself up and trying, in a superior effort, to combine the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: of the morning. A cold silence was abroad, which a crow now and
then vainly tried to disturb with a note of tentative enterprise,
forced, premature. It announced that the sun would probably rise,
but nothing more. In the little dark shops of the wood-carvers an
occasional indefinite figure moved, groping among last night's
tools, or an old woman in a red sari washed a brass dish over the
shallow open drain that ran past her door. At the tonga terminus,
below the Mall, a couple of coughing syces, muffled in their
blankets, pulled one of these vehicles out of the shed. They pushed
it about sleepily, with clumsy futility; nothing else stirred or
spoke at all in Simla. Nothing disturbed Miss Anderson asleep in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: makes me sick."
He turned on her.
"You too, I think, Mrs. Wheeler. I'm not attacking you on that
score; it's human nature. But it's the truth."
"Perhaps. I don't know."
"They'll drive him to doing it yet. He came back to make a place
for himself again, like a man. Not what he had, but what he was.
But they'll drive him away, mark my words."
Later on, but more gently, he introduced the subject of Elizabeth.
"You can't get away from this, Mrs. Wheeler. So long as she stands
off, and you behind her, the town is going to take her side. She
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