| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: dressed, I did not look very different from the many young fellows there. I
scanned all the faces, but did not see Dick's, nor, for that matter, the
Mexican's. Both disappointed and relieved, I turned away, for the picture
of low dissipation was not attractive.
The hum of the great sawmill drew me like a magnet. I went out to the
lumber-yard at the back of the mill, where a trestle slanted down to a pond
full of logs. A train loaded with pines had just pulled in, and dozens of
men were rolling logs off the flat-cars into a canal. At stations along the
canal stood others pike-poling the logs toward the trestle, where an
endless chain caught them with sharp claws and hauled them up. Half-way
from, the ground they were washed clean by a circle of water-spouts.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: flashings,--knows when the time comes to keep flat and take a
long, long breath. One heavy volleying of foam,--darkness and
hissing as of a steam-burst; a vibrant lifting up; a rush into
light,--and again the volleying and the seething darkness. Once
more,--and the fight is won! He feels the upcoming chill of
deeper water,--sees before him the green quaking of unbroken
swells,--and far beyond him Mateo leaping on the bar,--and beside
him, almost within arm's reach, a great billiard-table swaying,
and a dead woman clinging there, and ... the child.
A moment more, and Feliu has lifted himself beside the waifs ...
How fast the dead woman clings, as if with the one power which is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: To kill, my Lord, when war is once proclaimed,
So that our quarrel be for wrongs received,
No doubt, is lawfully permitted us;
But in an oath we must be well advised,
How we do swear, and, when we once have sworn,
Not to infringe it, though we die therefore:
Therefore, my Lord, as willing I return,
As if I were to fly to paradise.
CHARLES.
Stay, my Villiers; thine honorable min
Deserves to be eternally admired.
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