| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: life. I had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since
my return from the eastern waters--some four years before the day
of which I speak.
It was in the front sitting-room of furnished apartments in a
Pimlico square that they first began to live again with a
vividness and poignancy quite foreign to our former real
intercourse. I had been treating myself to a long stay on shore,
and in the necessity of occupying my mornings Almayer (that old
acquaintance) came nobly to the rescue.
Before long, as was only proper, his wife and daughter joined him
round my table, and then the rest of that Pantai band came full
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: least, our axes (without which man in the woods is a helpless
creature), in two birch-bark canoes, and went flying down the
Grande Decharge.
It is a wonderful place, this outlet of Lake St. John. All the
floods of twenty rivers are gathered here, and break forth through
a net of islands in a double stream, divided by the broad Ile
d'Alma, into the Grande Decharge and the Petite Decharge. The
southern outlet is small, and flows somewhat more quietly at first.
But the northern outlet is a huge confluence and tumult of waters.
You see the set of the tide far out in the lake, sliding, driving,
crowding, hurrying in with smooth currents and swirling eddies,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: the other case the moving and steering was done by
turning a peg. We touch a button, the prince turned
a peg. There ain't an atom of difference, you see. I
knowed I could git it through your head if I stuck to it
long enough."
He felt so happy he begun to whistle. But me and
Jim was silent, so he broke off surprised, and says:
"Looky here, Huck Finn, don't you see it YET?"
I says:
"Tom Sawyer, I want to ask you some questions."
"Go ahead," he says, and I see Jim chirk up to
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