| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: highest, vaguely foresaw a mighty peril, and resolved to wait no
longer for a lull. "Boys," he said, "we've got to take her out
in spite of Hell!" And they "took her out." Through all the
peril, his men stayed by him and obeyed him. By midmorning the
wind had deepened to a roar,--lowering sometimes to a rumble,
sometimes bursting upon the ears like a measureless and deafening
crash. Then the captain knew the Star was running a race with
Death. "She'll win it," he muttered;--"she'll stand it ...
Perhaps they'll have need of me to-night."
She won! With a sonorous steam-chant of triumph the brave little
vessel rode at last into the bayou, and anchored hard by her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: groped after his cigar. 'I do not remember to have had the
pleasure,' he responded huskily.
'Well, and Mr. Godall?' asked Mrs. Desborough.
'Are you the lady that has an appointment with old - ' began
Somerset, and paused blushing. 'Because if so,' he resumed,
'I was to announce you at once.'
And the shopman raised a curtain, opened a door, and passed
into a small pavilion which had been added to the back of the
house. On the roof, the rain resounded musically. The walls
were lined with maps and prints and a few works of reference.
Upon a table was a large-scale map of Egypt and the Soudan,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: Take the twice cursed away
Far from all ken,
The man abhorred of gods, accursed of men.
CHORUS
O thy despair well suits thy desperate case.
Would I had never looked upon thy face!
OEDIPUS
(Ant. 2)
My curse on him whoe'er unrived
The waif's fell fetters and my life revived!
He meant me well, yet had he left me there,
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