| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: of Mr. Swiveller, caused neither disappointment nor disgust
to their creators. And so with Pepys and his adored
protagonist: adored not blindly, but with trenchant insight
and enduring, human toleration. I have gone over and over
the greater part of the Diary; and the points where, to the
most suspicious scrutiny, he has seemed not perfectly
sincere, are so few, so doubtful, and so petty, that I am
ashamed to name them. It may be said that we all of us write
such a diary in airy characters upon our brain; but I fear
there is a distinction to be made; I fear that as we render
to our consciousness an account of our daily fortunes and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: reared privately. Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as
fierce-looking as wolves. They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that
they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been
used to do to Mr. Jones.
Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised
portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his
speech. He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning Meetings would
come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In future
all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a
special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. These would meet in
private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: river. Access to Mexico was easy and quick. What puzzled Duane
was how Bland got cattle down to the river, and he wondered if
the rustler really did get rid of his stolen stock by use of
boats.
Duane must have idled considerable time up on the hill, for
when he returned to the shack Euchre was busily engaged around
the camp-fire.
"Wal, glad to see you ain't so pale about the gills as you
was," he said, by way of greeting. "Pitch in an' we'll soon
have grub ready. There's shore one consolin' fact round this
here camp."
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