| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: and he wished to make American territory before the river broke.
But by the afternoon of the third day it became evident that he
had lost in his race with spring. The Yukon was growling and
straining at its fetters. Long detours became necessary, for the
trail had begun to fall through into the swift current beneath,
while the ice, in constant unrest, was thundering apart in great
gaping fissures. Through these and through countless airholes,
the water began to sweep across the surface of the ice, and by the
time he pulled into a woodchopper's cabin on the point of an
island, the dogs were being rushed off their feet and were
swimming more often than not. He was greeted sourly by the two
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: ye have to go. Ronald,' she continued, 'away up-by to the
shepherds; rowst them out of their beds, and make it perfectly
distinct that Sim is not to leave till he has seen me.'
Ronald was nothing loath to escape from his aunt's neighbourhood,
and left the room and the cottage with a silent expedition that was
more like flight than mere obedience. Meanwhile the old lady
turned to her niece.
'And I would like to know what we are to do with him the night!'
she cried.
'Ronald and I meant to put him in the hen-house,' said the
encrimsoned Flora.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: the nearer way.
But whoso will go to Babylon by another way, more short from the
countries of the west that I have rehearsed before, or from other
countries next to them - then men go by France, by Burgundy and by
Lombardy. It needeth not to tell you the names of the cities, nor
of the towns that be in that way, for the way is common, and it is
known of many nations. And there be many havens [where] men take
the sea. Some men take the sea at Genoa, some at Venice, and pass
by the sea Adriatic, that is clept the Gulf of Venice, that
departeth Italy and Greece on that side; and some go to Naples,
some to Rome, and from Rome to Brindisi and there they take the
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