| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: the proof. But in the face of all that, the very look of that high
oriel window convinces the imagination, and we enter into all the
sorrows of the imprisoned dame. We conceive the burthen of the long,
lack-lustre days, when she leaned her sick head against the mullions,
and saw the burghers loafing in Maybole High Street, and the children
at play, and ruffling gallants riding by from hunt or foray. We
conceive the passion of odd moments, when the wind threw up to her
some snatch of song, and her heart grew hot within her, and her eyes
overflowed at the memory of the past. And even if the tale be not
true of this or that lady, or this or that old tower, it is true in
the essence of all men and women: for all of us, some time or other,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: Lord Lambeth got into a little basket phaeton with Bessie Alden,
and she drove him down the long avenue, whose extent he had
measured on foot a couple of hours before, into the ancient town,
as it was called in that part of the world, of Newport. The ancient
town was a curious affair--a collection of fresh-looking little
wooden houses, painted white, scattered over a hillside and clustered
about a long straight street paved with enormous cobblestones.
There were plenty of shops--a large proportion of which appeared
to be those of fruit vendors, with piles of huge watermelons and
pumpkins stacked in front of them; and, drawn up before the shops,
or bumping about on the cobblestones, were innumerable other basket
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: his side and his little nose just out of the water. No cradle is
so comfortable as the long, rocking swell of the Pacific. When
Kotick felt his skin tingle all over, Matkah told him he was
learning the "feel of the water," and that tingly, prickly
feelings meant bad weather coming, and he must swim hard and get
away.
"In a little time," she said, "you'll know where to swim to,
but just now we'll follow Sea Pig, the Porpoise, for he is very
wise." A school of porpoises were ducking and tearing through the
water, and little Kotick followed them as fast as he could. "How
do you know where to go to?" he panted. The leader of the school
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