| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Tofa, alii' - 'Tofa, soifua!' I put on Jack up the steep
path, till he is all as white as shaving stick - Brown's
euxesis, wish I had some - past Tanugamanono, a bush village
- see into the houses as I pass - they are open sheds
scattered on a green - see the brown folk sitting there,
suckling kids, sleeping on their stiff wooden pillows - then
on through the wood path - and here I find the mysterious
white man (poor devil!) with his twenty years' certificate of
good behaviour as a book-keeper, frozen out by the strikes in
the colonies, come up here on a chance, no work to be found,
big hotel bill, no ship to leave in - and come up to beg
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: "Sarah Williams."
"Where 'bouts do you live? In this neighbor-
hood?'
"No'm. In Hookerville, seven mile below. I've
walked all the way and I'm all tired out."
"Hungry, too, I reckon. I'll find you something."
"No'm, I ain't hungry. I was so hungry I had to
stop two miles below here at a farm; so I ain't hungry
no more. It's what makes me so late. My mother's
down sick, and out of money and everything, and I
come to tell my uncle Abner Moore. He lives at the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: herself. Most of all, she did not want to sell them because they
were the only path that lay open to Ashley. If the mills went from
her control it would mean that she would seldom see Ashley and
probably never see him alone. And she had to see him alone. She
could not go on this way any longer, wondering what his feelings
toward her were now, wondering if all his love had died in shame
since the dreadful night of Melanie's party. In the course of
business she could find many opportune times for conversations
without it appearing to anyone that she was seeking him out. And,
given time, she knew she could gain back whatever ground she had
lost in his heart. But if she sold the mills--
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