| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: ever was seen in all this world."
"Very well," said the king, "yonder are those sand hills over
there. You shall remove them and build your palace there. When it
is finished you shall marry the princess." For if he does that,
thought the king to himself, it is something better than mere
good luck.
"It shall," said Jacob Stuck, "be done by tomorrow morning."
Well, all that day Jacob Stuck feasted and made merry at the
king's palace, and the king wondered when he was going to begin
to build his palace. But Jacob Stuck said nothing at all; he just
feasted and drank and made merry. When night had come, however,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: "You mean to tell me you never come out and chat with the boys, as
you used to? He has tamed you! Who keeps up these
flower-beds?"
"I come out on Sundays, when father is alone, and read the
Bohemian papers to him. But I am never here when the bar is open.
What have you two been doing?"
"Talking, as I told you. I've been telling him about my
travels. I find I can't talk much at home, not even to Eric."
Clara reached up and poked with her riding-whip at a white
moth that was fluttering in the sunlight among the vine leaves. "I
suppose you will never tell me about all those things."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: he smoked at the cabin-door, looking at his children
with an air of civic virtue, till they got caught one
after another and put to bed in various staterooms.
Lastly, we would drink some beer in the cabin, which
was furnished with a wooden table on cross legs, and
with black straight-backed chairs--more like a farm
kitchen than a ship's cuddy. The sea and all nauti-
cal affairs seemed very far removed from the hos-
pitality of this exemplary family.
And I liked this because I had a rather worrying
time on board my own ship. I had been appointed
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