| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: voice shaking.
"I'll do nothing of the kind," he returned calmly. "It'll be dark
before you get home and there's a new colony of darkies living in
tents and shanties near the next spring, mean niggers I've been
told, and I see no reason why you should give the impulsive Ku Klux
a cause for putting on their nightshirts and riding abroad this
evening."
"Get out!" she cried, tugging at the reins and suddenly nausea
overwhelmed her. He stopped the horse quickly, passed her two
clean handkerchiefs and held her head over the side of the buggy
with some skill. The afternoon sun, slanting low through the newly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: towards the front door and out to the steps, where he leaned for
a moment against the weather-boarding, letting the rain fall on
him as he stared dully down at the ground. It felt good to stand
there. No eyes were on him, and the rain was refreshing. This had
been too much for him. Never had he known himself to be so near
to bewilderment. How fortunate that he had escaped by this simple
trick of leaving the house. Then he thought of the car--a
half-mile north--and the horses in the stable. He must do
something. He would bring the car into the garage. It was
relieving to hurry across the dripping grass toward the barn. How
wonderful it was to keep the body doing something when the breath
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: kingdom without such an academy. In these colleges the
professors contrive new rules and methods of agriculture and
building, and new instruments, and tools for all trades and
manufactures; whereby, as they undertake, one man shall do the
work of ten; a palace may be built in a week, of materials so
durable as to last for ever without repairing. All the fruits of
the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit
to choose, and increase a hundred fold more than they do at
present; with innumerable other happy proposals. The only
inconvenience is, that none of these projects are yet brought to
perfection; and in the mean time, the whole country lies
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