| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: "They woke up the court interpreter, an American named Jenks, who was
in the rum business and vice versa, and told him to translate the
verdict.
"Jenks stretched himself and took a morphine tablet.
"'You've got to back up against th' 'dobe, old man,' says he to me.
'Three weeks, I believe, you get. Haven't got a chew of fine-cut on
you, have you?'
"'Translate that again, with foot-notes and a glossary,' says I. 'I
don't know whether I'm discharged, condemned, or handed over to the
Gerry Society.'
"'Oh,' says Jenks, 'don't you understand? You're to be stood up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry."
THYRSIS
"The field is parched, the grass-blades thirst to death
In the faint air; Liber hath grudged the hills
His vine's o'er-shadowing: should my Phyllis come,
Green will be all the grove, and Jupiter
Descend in floods of fertilizing rain."
CORYDON
"The poplar doth Alcides hold most dear,
The vine Iacchus, Phoebus his own bays,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: Deception Pass and the intersecting canyons. No purple sage
colored this valley floor. Instead there were the white of
aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the
green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks, and through the
middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of
brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and
willows.
"There's water here--and this is the place for me," said Venters.
"Only birds can peep over those walls, I've gone Oldring one
better."
Venters waited no longer, and turned swiftly to retrace his
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