| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: HIM out of the battle when he was wounded. And not just once, but
twice. Yes, I know a lot of things. I remember forms, and gaits,
and faces; and you can't disguise a person that's done me a
kindness so that I won't know him thereafter wherever I find him.
I know the art of searching for a trail, and I know the stale track
from the fresh. I can keep a trail all by myself, with Buffalo
Bill asleep in the saddle; ask him - he will tell you so. Many a
time, when he has ridden all night, he has said to me at dawn,
"Take the watch, Boy; if the trail freshens, call me." Then he
goes to sleep. He knows he can trust me, because I have a
reputation. A scout horse that has a reputation does not play with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: of news; but you know what these patients are:
they know everything."
"This is one of Grushnitski's tricks," I said to
myself.
"To prove the falsity of these rumours, doctor,
I may mention, as a secret, that I am moving to
Kislovodsk to-morrow" . . .
"And Princess Mary, too?"
"No, she remains here another week" . . .
"So you are not going to get married?" . . .
"Doctor, doctor! Look at me! Am I in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: The coming of the head squire made a very great change in the
condition of affairs. Even before that coming the bachelors had
somewhat recovered from their demoralization, and now again they
began to pluck up their confidence and to order the younger
squires and pages upon this personal service or upon that.
"See ye not," said Myles one day, when the Knights of the Rose
were gathered in the Brutus Tower--"see ye not that they grow as
bad as ever? An we put not a stop to this overmastery now, it
will never stop."
"Best let it be, Myles," said Wilkes. "They will kill thee an
thou cease not troubling them. Thou hast bred mischief enow for
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