| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: being erected, and that the hangman was expected
from Moscow on Wednesday. She also an-
nounced that the families of the convicts were
raging, and that their cries could be heard all over
the village.
Natalia Ivanovna did not go out of her house;
she did not wish to see the gallows and the people
in the village; she only wanted what had to hap-
pen to be over quickly. She only considered her
own feelings, and did not care for the convicts
and their families.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: the junk under way again.
The beach-combers returned to their junk, and Wilbur and Moran set
about cutting the carcass of the whale adrift. They found it
would be easier to cut away the hide from around the hooks and
loops of the tackle than to unfasten the tackle itself.
"The knots are jammed hard as steel," declared Moran. "Hand up
that cutting-in spade; stand by with the other and cut loose at
the same time as I do, so we can ease off the strain on these
lines at the same time. Ready there, cut!" Moran set free the
hook in the loop of black skin in a couple of strokes, but Wilbur
was more clumsy; the skin resisted. He struck at it sharply with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: was the men came aft, with blistered hands and faces, and sullen
eyes. When they proclaimed, through Edwards, their spokesman,
"We've had enough of this, and we mean it," I answered very
readily, "So have I. Let's go."
VII
We were none too soon. People had been reconnoitring us, the
telegraph had been at work, and we were not four hours at sea
before we ran against the gunboat that had been sent down the
coast to look for us and that would have caught us behind the
island like a beast in a trap. It was a night of driving cloud
that gave intermittent gleams of moonlight; the wind and sea were
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