| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: Four days later we were in New York, after a journey saddened
by thoughts of the one who had left us to return alone.
It was, in fact, many months before the shadow of Desiree
ceased to hover about the dark old mansion on lower Fifth Avenue,
incongruous enough among the ancient halls and portraits of Lamars
dead and gone in a day when La Marana herself had darted like a
meteor into the hearts of their contemporaries.
That is, I suppose, properly the end of the story; but I
cannot refrain from the opportunity to record a curious incident
that has just befallen me. Some twenty minutes ago, as I was
writing the last paragraph--I am seated in the library before a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: the plaza runs Patrick Shane, hotfoot, with his clothes ripped half
off, and scratches on his face like a cat had fought him hard for
every one of its lives.
"'They're looting the treasury, W. D.,' he sings out. 'They're going
to kill me and you, too. Unlimber a couple of mules at once. We'll
have to make a get-away in a couple of minutes.'
"'They've found out,' says I,' the truth about the law of supply and
demand.'
"'It's the women, mostly,' says the King. 'And they used to admire me
so!'
"'They hadn't seen looking-glasses then,' says I.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: down now, and will do nothing as long as I possibly can.
With David Balfour I am very well pleased; in fact these
labours of the last year - I mean FALESA AND D. B., not
Samoa, of course - seem to me to be nearer what I mean than
anything I have ever done; nearer what I mean by fiction; the
nearest thing before was KIDNAPPED. I am not forgetting the
MASTER OF BALLANTRAE, but that lacked all pleasurableness,
and hence was imperfect in essence. So you see, if I am a
little tired, I do not repent.
The third part of the DEBACLE may be all very fine; but I
cannot read it. It suffers from IMPAIRED VITALITY, and
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