| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: have studied faithfully and
have learned all that I have been able to teach you, and now you
shall not go out into the world with nothing at all. See; here
are three glass balls, and that is one for each of you. Their
like is not to be found in the four corners of the world. Carry
the balls wherever you go, and when one of them drops to the
ground, dig, and there you will certainly find a treasure."
So the three students went out into the wide world.
Well, they travelled on and on for day after day, each carrying
his glass ball with him wherever he went. They travelled on and
on for I cannot tell how long, until one day the ball that Joseph
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: live. They'll wash the body and lay it out, and do everything
that is necessary."
A DREARY STORY
FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN OLD MAN
I
THERE is in Russia an emeritus Professor Nikolay Stepanovitch, a
chevalier and privy councillor; he has so many Russian and
foreign decorations that when he has occasion to put them on the
students nickname him "The Ikonstand." His acquaintances are of
the most aristocratic; for the last twenty-five or thirty years,
at any rate, there has not been one single distinguished man of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: They had even attempted to find coal under strata which are usually
below it, such as the Devonian red sandstone, but without result.
James Starr had therefore abandoned the mine with the absolute
conviction that it did not contain another bit of coal.
"No," he repeated, "no! How is it possible that anything
which could have escaped my researches, should be revealed
to those of Simon Ford. However, the old overman must well
know that such a discovery would be the one thing in the world
to interest me, and this invitation, which I must keep secret,
to repair to the Dochart pit!" James Starr always came
back to that.
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