| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: BY a little after noon on the eve of Christmas, John had left
his portmanteau in the cloak-room, and stepped forth into
Princes Street with a wonderful expansion of the soul, such
as men enjoy on the completion of long-nourished schemes. He
was at home again, incognito and rich; presently he could
enter his father's house by means of the pass-key, which he
had piously preserved through all his wanderings; he would
throw down the borrowed money; there would be a
reconciliation, the details of which he frequently arranged;
and he saw himself, during the next month, made welcome in
many stately houses at many frigid dinner-parties, taking his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: near or were suddenly swallowed up, in the current of the
mistral. Tears sprang in the pale blue eyes; the expression
of his face was changed to that of a more active misery, it
seemed as if the voices of the bells reached, and touched and
pained him, in a waste of vacancy where even pain was
welcome. Outside in the night they continued to sound on,
swelling and fainting; and the listener heard in his memory,
as it were their harmonies, joy-bells clashing in a northern
city, and the acclamations of a multitude, the cries of
battle, the gross voices of cannon, the stridor of an
animated life. And then all died away, and he stood face to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: easily than anyone had expected. In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard
master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days.
He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had
taken to drinking more than was good for him. For whole days at a time he
would lounge in his Windsor chair in the kitchen, reading the newspapers,
drinking, and occasionally feeding Moses on crusts of bread soaked in
beer. His men were idle and dishonest, the fields were full of weeds, the
buildings wanted roofing, the hedges were neglected, and the animals were
underfed.
June came and the hay was almost ready for cutting. On Midsummer's Eve,
which was a Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Willingdon and got so drunk at
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