| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: convulsions. His infancy was normal. He walked and talked
early. At three years he had diphtheria badly with delirium for
a couple of weeks and paralysis of the palate for some months.
After this his parents thought the boy not quite normal. He had
slight fevers occasionally. At 9 years he was very ill with
scarlet fever. Following that he had some trouble with the bones
in his legs. Before he left Hamburg he had an operation on one
leg for this trouble which had persisted. (It was quite
significant that in our first interview Adolf had told us his leg
had been injured by a rock falling on it, necessitating the
operation.) Up to the age of 14 this boy, although apparently in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: he was plainly pleased at the prospect of exchanging the claim for
a sack of flour.
"She ain't jumped," Kink assured him. "It's No. 24, and it stands.
The chechaquos took it serious, and they begun stakin' where you
left off. Staked clean over the divide, too. I was gassin' with
one of them which has just got in with cramps in his legs."
It was then, and for the first time, that they heard the slow and
groping utterance of Ans Handerson.
"Ay like the looks," he was saying to the bar-keeper. "Ay tank Ay
gat a claim."
The partners winked at each other, and a few minutes later a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: door, Stephen entered with the Bourbon.
THE MOONLIGHT RIDE
XXIV
And so the twenty minutes' law passed into an infinity. We leave
the wicked Bechamel clothing himself with cursing as with a
garment,--the wretched creature has already sufficiently sullied
our modest but truthful pages,--we leave the eager little group
in the bar of the Vicuna Hotel, we leave all Bognor as we have
left all Chichester and Midhurst and Haslemere and Guildford and
Ripley and Putney, and follow this dear fool of a Hoopdriver of
ours and his Young Lady in Grey out upon the moonlight road. How
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