| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: excited joy. But as eight o'clock approached there was the sound of wheels
on the road, and presently in came a party of friends to spend the evening.
Then it was:
"Put on the coffee."
"Bring me the sugar tin."
"Carry the chairs out of the bedroom."
"Set the table."
And, finally, the Frau sent her into the next room to keep the baby quiet.
There was a little piece of candle burning in the enamel bracket. As she
walked up and down she saw her great big shadow on the wall like a grown-up
person with a grown-up baby. Whatever would it look like when she carried
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: touched with pink the high lights on their gracefully
recumbent forms. After a while we rolled up in our
blankets and went to sleep, while a band of coyotes
wailed like lost spirits from a spot where a steer had
died.
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THE GOLDEN TROUT
After Farewell Gap, as has been hinted, the
country changes utterly. Possibly that is why
it is named Farewell Gap. The land is wild, weird,
full of twisted trees, strangely colored rocks, fantastic
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: major noticed at a distance of some two hundred yards the remains of
another bridge intended for carriages and destroyed the day before.
"Let us make a raft!" he cried.
He had hardly uttered the words before the whole group rushed to the
ruins, and began to pick up iron bolts, and screws, and pieces of wood
and ropes, whatever materials they could find that were suitable for
the construction of a raft. A score of soldiers and officers, who were
armed, formed a guard, commanded by the major, to protect the workers
against the desperate attacks which might be expected from the crowd,
if their scheme was discovered. The instinct of freedom, strong in all
prisoners, inspiring them to miraculous acts, can only be compared
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