| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: --and at the end, in spite of our best efforts, we fell
to morose silence and the red-eyed vindictive
contemplation of the objective point that would not
seem to come nearer.
For now we lost accurate sense of time. At first it
had been merely a question of going in at one side
of eight days, pressing through them, and coming out
on the other side. Then the eight days would be
behind us. But once we had entered that enchanted
period, we found ourselves more deeply involved.
The seemingly limited area spread with startling
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: not much fear of the natives; their kraals had been destroyed and their
granaries burnt for thirty miles round, and they themselves had fled: but
he feared, somewhat, the lions, which he had never seen, but of which he
had heard, and which might be cowering in the long grasses and brushwood at
the kopje's foot:--and he feared, vaguely, he hardly knew what, when he
looked forward to his first long night alone in the veld.
By the time the sun had set he had gathered a little pile of stumps and
branches on the top of the kopje. He intended to keep a fire burning all
night; and as the darkness began to settle down he lit it. It might be his
friends would see it from far, and come for him early in the morning; and
wild beasts would hardly approach him while he knelt beside it; and of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: James Vane bit his lip. "Watch over Sibyl, Mother," he cried,
"watch over her."
"My son, you distress me very much. Sibyl is always under my special care.
Of course, if this gentleman is wealthy, there is no reason why she should
not contract an alliance with him. I trust he is one of the aristocracy.
He has all the appearance of it, I must say. It might be a most brilliant
marriage for Sibyl. They would make a charming couple. His good looks are
really quite remarkable; everybody notices them."
The lad muttered something to himself and drummed on the window-pane
with his coarse fingers. He had just turned round to say something
when the door opened and Sibyl ran in.
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