| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Hark!" interrupted Archie softly. "Set, Ma'm. Thar's horses."
Melanie sank into a chair, picked up one of Ashley's shirts and,
bowing her head over it, unconsciously began to tear the frills
into small ribbons.
The sound of hooves grew louder as horses trotted up to the house.
There was the jangling of bits and the strain of leather and the
sound of voices. As the hooves stopped in front of the house, one
voice rose above the others in a command and the listeners heard
feet going through the side yard toward the back porch. They felt
that a thousand inimical eyes looked at them through the unshaded
front window and the four women, with fear in their hearts, bent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: age they are familiar with all the rules of behaviour which
characterize their after life and conduct. Their clothes are cut
on the same pattern, out of cloth as those of their parents and
grandparents. There are no kilts and knee-breeches, pinafores and
short skirts, to make them feel that they are little people.
But they are little people as really and truly as are the
children of other countries. A gentleman in reviewing my
"Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes" speaks of some of the
illustrations which "present the Chinese children playing
their sober little games." Why we should call such a game
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: rate of progress. Presently he sighted a current racing along toward
the north-west, and that put another idea into his head. He began to
juggle with the membranes again, and before long had succeeded in
piloting his tree into the fast-running stream. As soon as they were
fairly in its rapids. he blinded the crown entirely, and
thenceforward the current acted in the double capacity of road and
steed.
Maskull made himself secure among the branches and slept for the
remainder of the night.
When his eyes opened again, the island was out of sight. Teargeld
was setting in the western sea. The sky in the east was bright with
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