| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: She rode out into an open space where a loose earth-slide denied lodgement to
trees and grass. She halted the horse at the brink of the slide and glanced
down it with a measuring eye. Forty feet beneath, the slide terminated in a
small, firm-surfaced terrace, the banked accumulation of fallen earth and
gravel.
"It's a good test," she called across the canyon. "I'm going to put him down
it."
The animal gingerly launched himself on the treacherous footing, irregularly
losing and gaining his hind feet, keeping his fore legs stiff, and steadily
and calmly, without panic or nervousness, extricating the fore feet as fast as
they sank too deep into the sliding earth that surged along in a wave before
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: of situations in which I might find this Comtesse de Montpersan,
or, to observe the laws of romance, this Juliette, so
passionately beloved of my traveling companion. I sketched out
ingenious answers to the questions which she might be supposed to
put to me. At every turn of a wood, in every beaten pathway, I
rehearsed a modern version of the scene in which Sosie describes
the battle to his lantern. To my shame be it said, I had thought
at first of nothing but the part that _I_ was to play, of my own
cleverness, of how I should demean myself; but now that I was in
the country, an ominous thought flashed through my soul like a
thunderbolt tearing its way through a veil of gray cloud.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: by the certitude of Bulangi's mercenary disposition, and, taking
up his paddle, in a few strokes sheered alongside the water-gate
of the Rajah's house.
That afternoon Almayer, as was his wont lately, moved about on
the water-side, overlooking the repairs to his boats. He had
decided at last. Guided by the scraps of information contained
in old Lingard's pocket-book, he was going to seek for the rich
gold-mine, for that place where he had only to stoop to gather up
an immense fortune and realise the dream of his young days. To
obtain the necessary help he had shared his knowledge with Dain
Maroola, he had consented to be reconciled with Lakamba, who gave
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