| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: toil are few;
There is not time enough on earth for all I'd
like to do;
But, having lived and having toiled, I'd like the
world to find
Some little touch of beauty that my soul had
left behind.
THE FINEST AGE
When he was only nine months old,
And plump and round and pink of cheek,
A joy to tickle and to hold,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: weapon.
High above Zane's cry, Deering's shouts and curses, Girty's shrieks of fear
and fury, above the noise of wrestling bodies and dull blows, rose a deep
booming roar.
It was Wetzel's awful cry of vengeance.
"Shake him loose," yelled Jonathan.
Baffled, he ran wildly around the wrestlers. Time and time again his gory
tomahawk was raised only to be lowered. He found no opportunity to strike.
Girty's ghastly countenance gleamed at him from the whirl of legs, and arms
and bodies. Then Wetzel's dark face, lighted by merciless eyes, took its
place, and that gave way to Deering's broad features. The men being clad alike
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: "I burned it," replied Jekyll, "before I thought what I was
about. But it bore no postmark. The note was handed in."
"Shall I keep this and sleep upon it?" asked Utterson.
"I wish you to judge for me entirely," was the reply. "I have
lost confidence in myself."
"Well, I shall consider," returned the lawyer. "And now one
word more: it was Hyde who dictated the terms in your will about
that disappearance?"
The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness; he shut
his mouth tight and nodded.
"I knew it," said Utterson. "He meant to murder you. You had
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