| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: common but in hostile camps, so that it lies between them like a
bone between two dogs, each growling, each clutching his own end.
Should Apia ever choose a coat of arms, I have a motto ready:
"Enter Rumour painted full of tongues." The majority of the
natives do extremely little; the majority of the whites are
merchants with some four mails in the month, shopkeepers with some
ten or twenty customers a day, and gossip is the common resource of
all. The town hums to the day's news, and the bars are crowded
with amateur politicians. Some are office-seekers, and earwig king
and consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to
salary. Some are humorists, delighted with the pleasure of faction
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: the colour of the hair itself, dull black with a tawny
under-surface, like the wings of certain birds. He felt it
to be useless to speak.
After a while she lifted her head and said: "I shall not see
her again before she goes."
He made no answer, and turning to him she added: "That is
why she's going, I suppose? Because she loves you and won't
give you up?"
Darrow waited. The paltriness of conventional denial was so
apparent to him that even if it could have delayed discovery
he could no longer have resorted to it. Under all his other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: soon as he had heard the news. "Will you not stop and
congratulate the Dog on the reign of universal peace?"
"I would gladly do so," said the Fox, "but I fear he may not
have heard of King Lion's decree."
Cunning often outwits itself.
The Wind and the Sun
The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger.
Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun
said: "I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can
cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as
the stronger. You begin." So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and
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