| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: our fields? He is no longer before her eyes to ex-
cite her imagination into a passion of love or fear;
and his memory seems to have vanished from her
dull brain as a shadow passes away upon a white
screen. She lives in the cottage and works for Miss
Swaffer. She is Amy Foster for everybody, and
the child is 'Amy Foster's boy.' She calls him
Johnny--which means Little John.
"It is impossible to say whether this name re-
calls anything to her. Does she ever think of the
past? I have seen her hanging over the boy's cot
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: bewildered.
"It's strange that he should have found time to lay down the
revolver before he died," remarked Horn. Johann put out his hand
and raised the weapon before Horn could prevent him. "Leave that
pistol where it was," commanded the commissioner. "We have to look
into this matter more closely."
The doctor turned quickly. "You think it was a murder?" he
exclaimed. "The doors were both locked on the inside - where could
the murderer be?"
"I don't pretend to see him myself yet. But our rule is to leave
things as they are discovered, until the official examination.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: "YOU used to get up with the lark--Oh, no doubt--
you'll get up with the hangman one of these days.
But you ought to be ashamed to be jawing here like this,
in a red blanket, on a forty-foot scaffold on top
of the Alps. And no end of people down here to boot;
this isn't any place for an exhibition of temper."
And so the customary quarrel went on. When the sun
was fairly down, we slipped back to the hotel in the
charitable gloaming, and went to bed again. We had
encountered the horn-blower on the way, and he had tried
to collect compensation, not only for announcing the sunset,
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