| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN
CHAPTER V
HOW LITTLE GLUCK SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE
GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN,
WITH OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST
THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER
CHAPTER I
HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS
INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE
In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was in old
time a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: spoils, and, as my father imagined, feigned to be asleep; but
presently he had raised himself again upon one elbow, looked
with sharp scrutiny at his companions, and then swiftly
carried his hand into his bosom and thence to his mouth. By
the movement of his jaws he must be eating; in that camp of
famine he had reserved a store of nourishment; and while his
companions lay in the stupor of approaching death, secretly
restored his powers.
My father was so incensed at what he saw that he raised his
rifle; and but for an accident, he has often declared, he
would have shot the fellow dead upon the spot. How different
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: one, even friends, anything that you have never yet confessed to me?"
"Ethel," replied Richard, "although I cannot promise that you will be
entirely proud of my conduct when you have heard this episode of my past,
I do say that there is nothing in it to hurt the trust you have placed in
me since I have been your husband. Only," he added, "I hope that I shall
not have to tell any story at all."
"Oh, yes you will!" we all exclaimed together; and the men looked eager
while the women sighed.
The rest of us were much older than Richard, we were middle-aged, in
fact; and human nature is so constructed, that when it is at the age when
making love keeps it busy, it does not care so much to listen to tales of
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