| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Came the Mandans and Dacotahs,
Came the Hurons and Ojibways,
All the warriors drawn together
By the signal of the Peace-Pipe,
To the Mountains of the Prairie,
To the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry.
And they stood there on the meadow,
With their weapons and their war-gear,
Painted like the leaves of Autumn,
Painted like the sky of morning,
Wildly glaring at each other;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: curious mockery in the weak voice. "You think I've drunk myself
into this state. You think I'm on the verge of the D.T.'s now.
That empty bottle under the bed proves it, doesn't it? And anybody
around here will tell you that Gypsy Nan has thrown enough empties
out of the window there to stock a bottle factory for years, some
of them on the flat roof just outside the window, some of them on
the roof of the shed below, and some of them down into the yard,
just depending on how drunk she was and how far she could throw.
And that proves it, too, doesn't it? Well, maybe it does, that's
what I did it for; but I never touched the stuff, not a drop of it,
from the day I came here. I didn't dare touch it. I had to keep
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was
disappointed. From the darkness where the ranger's little partner
sat on the bed came a deep sigh of relief, but O'Connor did not
wink an eyelash.
"I may conclude, then, that Mike O'Halloran has been getting in
his work?" was his cool reply.
"Exactly, senor. He is the man on horseback and I travel afoot,"
smiled Megales.
Bucky looked him over coolly from head to foot. "Still I can't
quite understand why your ex-excellency does me the honor of a
personal visit."
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