| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: be. In the semidarkness it was difficult to calculate our rate of
speed, but I judged that we were moving at about six or seven miles
an hour.
We had gone perhaps three miles when we came to a sharp bend
in the stream, to the left, almost at a right angle. Harry, at the
bow, was supposed to be on the lookout, but he failed to see it
until we were already caught in its whirl.
Then he gave a cry of alarm, and together we swung the raft to
the left, avoiding the right bank of the curve by less than a foot.
Once safely past, I sent Harry to the stern and took the bow
myself, which brought down upon him a deal of keen banter from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: to the soul. Softly she arose, set the door ajar, and looked forth
into the moonlit yard. There, under the bananas, lay Keawe, his
mouth in the dust, and as he lay he moaned.
It was Kokua's first thought to run forward and console him; her
second potently withheld her. Keawe had borne himself before his
wife like a brave man; it became her little in the hour of weakness
to intrude upon his shame. With the thought she drew back into the
house.
"Heaven!" she thought, "how careless have I been - how weak! It is
he, not I, that stands in this eternal peril; it was he, not I,
that took the curse upon his soul. It is for my sake, and for the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: queen's story. "The prince was indeed the baby given us by the
woodcutter so many years ago," she said. As the king felt a wave of
despair washing over him, the nurse from the holy order came forward
and spoke.
"With all deference to my Lady and to her majesty," she said, "the
queen is only half correct. For the child was indeed not hers, but
he is the king's son." She then pulled back the cowl of her robes,
took down her hair and showed the king her face. Even through the
ravages of two decades, the king could still clearly see the face of
his daughter's lady in waiting, his lover who had borne his child
without his knowledge so many years ago. The lady briefly explained
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