| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: I was even happy sitting here ragged and hungry,
listening to the fountain jump and watching the
carriages go up the avenue. But it's in reach of my
hand again now -- almost -- and I can't stand it to
wait twelve hours, Dawson -- I can't stand it.
There are fifty things that could happen to me -- I
could go blind -- I might be attacked with heart
disease -- the world might come to an end before I
could -- "
Ide sprang to his feet again, with a shriek. Peo-
ple stirred on the benches and began to look. Val-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: We will briefly consider how far these statements appear to be justified by
facts: and, 1, about the meaning of the word there arises an interesting
question:--
Many words are used both in a general and a specific sense, and the two
senses are not always clearly distinguished. Sometimes the generic meaning
has been narrowed to the specific, while in other cases the specific
meaning has been enlarged or altered. Examples of the former class are
furnished by some ecclesiastical terms: apostles, prophets, bishops,
elders, catholics. Examples of the latter class may also be found in a
similar field: jesuits, puritans, methodists, and the like. Sometimes the
meaning is both narrowed and enlarged; and a good or bad sense will subsist
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: poor fishes were gasping and flopping helplessly on the
floor of the banquet room one of them said
reproachfully: 'You will be punished for this, Coo-ee-
oh, for if one of us dies or is destroyed, you will
become shrivelled and helpless, and all your stolen
magic will depart from you.' Frightened by this threat,
Coo-ee-oh at once caught up the three fish and ran with
them to the shore of the lake, where she cast them into
the water. This revived the three Adepts and they swam
away and disappeared.
"I, myself, witnessed this shocking scene," continued
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