| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: cultivated countryside--farmhouses surrounded by elms; compact wood
lots of hardwood; crops and orchards, all fair and pleasant across
the bosom of a fertile nature.
"And this," said he. "That valley was once nothing but a pine
forest--and so was all the southern part of the State, the peach
belt and the farms. And for that matter Indiana, too, and all the
other forest States right out to the prairies. Where would we be
now, if we HADN'T done that?" he pointed across at the stump-covered
hills.
Mischief had driven out the gravity from the girl's eyes. She had
lowered her head slightly sidewise as though to conceal their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: a name--he could not tell what name--that was
subsequently to recur, of some queer long-forgotten
sensation of vein and muscle, of a feeling of vast
hopeless effort, the effort of a man near drowning in
darkness. Then came a panorama of dazzling unstable
confluent scenes.
Graham became aware his eyes were open and regarding
some unfamiliar thing.
It was something white, the edge of something, a
frame of wood. He moved his head slightly, following
the contour of this shape. It went up beyond the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: Magnus it was the last--positively the very last."
"Poor, poor Derrick," murmured Cedarquist. "Tell me about him,
Pres. How does he take it? What is he going to do?"
"It beggars him, sir. He sunk a great deal more than any of us
believed in his ranch, when he resolved to turn off most of the
tenants and farm the ranch himself. Then the fight he made
against the Railroad in the Courts and the political campaign he
went into, to get Lyman on the Railroad Commission, took more of
it. The money that Genslinger blackmailed him of, it seems, was
about all he had left. He had been gambling--you know the
Governor--on another bonanza crop this year to recoup him. Well,
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