| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: find I won't be able to say nasty things about her after all. If
she was too fond of her rubbishy children, she couldn't help it.
Look at her in her chair, where she has fallen asleep. The
corner of her mouth, where one looks first, is almost withered
up. Her hand moves restlessly on her breast as if she had a
pain there. Some like Peter best, and some like Wendy best, but
I like her best. Suppose, to make her happy, we whisper to her
in her sleep that the brats are coming back. They are really
within two miles of the window now, and flying strong, but all
we need whisper is that they are on the way. Let's.
It is a pity we did it, for she has started up, calling their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Little John, and I will be thy godfather."
Then Robin Hood and all his band laughed aloud until the stranger
began to grow angry.
"An thou make a jest of me," quoth he to Will Stutely, "thou wilt
have sore bones and little pay, and that in short season."
"Nay, good friend," said Robin Hood, "bottle thine anger,
for the name fitteth thee well. Little John shall thou
be called henceforth, and Little John shall it be.
So come, my merry men, we will prepare a christening feast
for this fair infant."
So turning their backs upon the stream, they plunged into the forest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: wound. It isn't bad. Dave will be all right in a couple of days. Now I'll look
at George."
Zeisberger hurried into the other room. Young lay with quiet face and closed
eyes, breathing faintly. Zeisberger opened the wounded man's shirt and exposed
the wound, which was on the right side, rather high up. Nell, who had followed
Zeisberger that she might be of some assistance if needed, saw him look at the
wound and then turn a pale face away for a second. That hurried, shuddering
movement of the sober, practical missionary was most significant. Then he bent
over Young and inserted on of the probes into the wound. He pushed the steel
an inch, two, three, four inches into Young's breast, but the latter neither
moved nor moaned. Zeisberger shook his head, and finally removed the
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