| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Poem: II - THE PRECARIOUS MILL
Alone above the stream it stands,
Above the iron hill,
The topsy-turvy, tumble-down,
Yet habitable mill.
Still as the ringing saws advance
To slice the humming deal,
All day the pallid miller hears
The thunder of the wheel.
He hears the river plunge and roar
As roars the angry mob;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: finished my meal and was thinking of turning in, Marie herself appeared
within the circle of the camp-fire's light. I sprang up and ran to her,
saying that I had not expected to see her that evening, and did not like
to come to the house.
"No," she answered, drawing me back into the shadows, "I understand. My
father seems very much upset, almost mad, indeed. If the Vrouw
Prinsloo's tongue had been a snake's fang, it could not have stung him
worse."
"And where is Pereira?" I asked.
"Oh! my cousin sleeps in the other room. He is weak and worn out. All
the same, Allan, he wanted to kiss me. So I told him at once how
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: the stone than he did before, because in
the reaction of the stone, all the parts of
it round about the hammer rise towards
the blow; and if the tenacity of the parts
of the stone, is not stronger than the force
with which it moves towards the hammer,
the stone must break; which it does when
the blow is strong, and struck upon the
centre of gravity of the stone.
In the 6th Fig. of Plate 19, the man
IHL (the chairs IL, being made fast)
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