| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: trying to drive you out. You've never been cold and ragged and had
to break your back to keep from starving!"
He said quietly: "I was in the Confederate Army for eight months.
I don't know any better place for starving."
"The army! Bah! You've never had to pick cotton and weed corn.
You've-- Don't you laugh at me!"
His hands were on hers again as her voice rose harshly.
"I wasn't laughing at you. I was laughing at the difference in
what you look and what you really are. And I was remembering the
first time I ever saw you, at the barbecue at the Wilkes'. You had
on a green dress and little green slippers, and you were knee deep
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: From hence there are but few towns on the sea-coast west, though
there are several considerable rivers empty themselves into the
sea; nor are there any harbours or seaports of any note except
Poole. As for Christchurch, though it stands at the mouth of the
Avon (which, as I have said, comes down from Salisbury, and brings
with it all the waters of the south and east parts of Wiltshire,
and receives also the Stour and Piddle, two Dorsetshire rivers
which bring with them all the waters of the north part of
Dorsetshire), yet it is a very inconsiderable poor place, scarce
worth seeing, and less worth mentioning in this account, only that
it sends two members to Parliament, which many poor towns in this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: opium, and gave us a very good price for it, paying us in gold by
weight, some in small pieces of their own coin, and some in small
wedges, of about ten or twelves ounces each. While we were dealing
with him for our opium, it came into my head that he might perhaps
deal for the ship too, and I ordered the interpreter to propose it
to him. He shrunk up his shoulders at it when it was first
proposed to him; but in a few days after he came to me, with one of
the missionary priests for his interpreter, and told me he had a
proposal to make to me, which was this: he had bought a great
quantity of our goods, when he had no thoughts of proposals made to
him of buying the ship; and that, therefore, he had not money to
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