| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Was there anything the matter with them, Scarlett wondered? Had
she been too absorbed with her own fears to notice? Yes, despite
Melanie's attempts to make the evening appear like any one of fifty
they had all spent together, there was a difference due to their
alarm and shock at what had happened that afternoon. Scarlett
stole glances at her companions and intercepted a look from India.
It discomforted her because it was a long, measuring glance that
carried in its cold depths something stronger than hate, something
more insulting than contempt.
"As though she thought I was to blame for what happened," Scarlett
thought indignantly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: finish his sentence the old gentleman had shut the house door
behind him with a great bang, and there drove past the window at
the same instant a wreath of ragged cloud that whirled and rolled
away down the valley in all manner of shapes, turning over and
over in the air and melting away at last in a gush of rain.
"A very pretty business, indeed, Mr. Gluck!" said Schwartz.
"Dish the mutton, sir. If ever I catch you at such a trick again--
bless me, why, the mutton's been cut!"
"You promised me one slice, brother, you know," said Gluck.
"Oh! and you were cutting it hot, I suppose, and going to
catch all the gravy. It'll be long before I promise you such a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: carrying the old man and the young spendthrift, until at last it
brought them to a rocky desert without leaf or blade of grass to
be seen far or near. Then it descended to where there was a
circle of sand as smooth as a floor.
The old man rolled up the carpet, and then drew from a pouch that
hung at his side a box, and from the box some sticks of sandal
and spice woods, with which he built a little fire. Next he drew
from the same pouch a brazen jar, from which he poured a gray
powder upon the blaze. Instantly there leaped up a great flame of
white light and a cloud of smoke, which rose high in the air, and
there spread out until it hid everything from sight. Then the old
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