| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: lot in the graveyard. So they'd got to work that off
-- I never see such a girafft as the king was for want-
ing to swallow EVERYTHING. Well, whilst they was at it
a steamboat landed, and in about two minutes up
comes a crowd a-whooping and yelling and laughing
and carrying on, and singing out:
"HERE'S your opposition line! here's your two sets
o' heirs to old Peter Wilks -- and you pays your
money and you takes your choice!"
CHAPTER XXIX.
THEY was fetching a very nice-looking old gentle-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: Street, drawing near along the Embankment. The man was not
unknown to him; he had bought of his wares, and heard him
quoted for the soul of liberality; and such was now the
nearness of his peril, that even at such a straw of hope, he
clutched with gratitude.
'Thank God!' he cried. 'Here comes a friend of mine. I'll
borrow.' And he dashed to meet the tradesman. 'Sir,' said
he, 'Mr. Godall, I have dealt with you - you doubtless know
my face - calamities for which I cannot blame myself have
overwhelmed me. Oh, sir, for the love of innocence, for the
sake of the bonds of humanity, and as you hope for mercy at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: Round and round, evenly, steadily, minute after minute, hour after
hour, shoving out, drawing in, circle after circle, no swerving, no
stopping, no varying the motion, turn after turn--fifty-five, fifty-
six, fifty-seven--what's the use of counting? Watch the dial; go to
sleep--no! for God's sake, no sleep! But how hard it is to keep
awake! How heavy the arm grows, how stiffly the muscles move, how
the will creaks and groans. BATISCAN! It is not easy for a human
being to become part of a machine.
Fortin himself took the longest spell at the crank, of course. He
went at his work with a rigid courage. His red-hot anger had cooled
down into a shape that was like a bar of forged steel. He meant to
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