| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: After that his voice grew faint, and I felt as if I were walking in a
dream.
XVIII. CONCLUSION
That dreadful feeling of motion went away, and I became unconscious of
everything. When I awoke the sun was gleaming dimly through thin films of
smoke. I was lying in a pleasant little ravine with stunted pines fringing
its slopes. The brook bowled merrily over stones.
Bud snored in the shade of a big boulder. Herky whistled as he broke dead
branches into fagots for a campfire. Bill was nowhere in sight. I saw
several of the horses browsing along the edge of the water.
My drowsy eyelids fell back again. When I awoke a long time seemed to have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: Is by the French King sold unto his death:
It may fall out, that I may do him good;
To save his life, I'll hazard my heart blood.
Therefore, kind sir, thanks for your liberal gift;
I must be gone to aide him; there's no shift.
FRISKIBALL.
I'll be no hinderer to so good an act.
Heaven prosper you in that you go about!
If Fortune bring you this way back again,
Pray let me see you: so I take my leave;
All good a man can wish, I do bequeath.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: I offered him the report on the `Suppression of Savage Customs,'
with the postscriptum torn off. He took it up eagerly,
but ended by sniffing at it with an air of contempt.
`This is not what we had a right to expect,' he remarked.
`Expect nothing else,' I said. `There are only private letters.'
He withdrew upon some threat of legal proceedings, and I saw him
no more; but another fellow, calling himself Kurtz's cousin,
appeared two days later, and was anxious to hear all the details
about his dear relative's last moments. Incidentally he gave me
to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician.
`There was the making of an immense success,' said the man,
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