| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: Osbourne, and Mrs. Stevenson held an assault of arms on the public
highway, and fired at bottles to the admiration of the natives.
Captain Reid of the EQUATOR stayed on shore with us to be at hand
in case of trouble, and we retired to bed at the accustomed hour,
agreeably excited by the day's events. The night was exquisite,
the silence enchanting; yet as I lay in my hammock looking on the
strong moonshine and the quiescent palms, one ugly picture haunted
me of the two women, the naked and the clad, locked in that hostile
embrace. The harm done was probably not much, yet I could have
looked on death and massacre with less revolt. The return to these
primeval weapons, the vision of man's beastliness, of his ferality,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER
AS swallows turning backward
When half-way o'er the sea,
At one word's trumpet summons
They came again to me -
The hopes I had forgotten
Came back again to me.
I know not which to credit,
O lady of my heart!
Your eyes that bade me linger,
Your words that bade us part -
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: to the naked eye from the surface of Saturn, declared that he then,
for his part, did not care to learn any more about such a planet;
to him it was indispensable that the earth should remain in sight,
and it was his great consolation that hitherto his native sphere
had never vanished from his gaze.
At this date Saturn was revolving at a distance of 420,000,000
miles from Gallia, and consequently 874,440,000 miles
from the sun, receiving only a hundredth part of the light
and heat which that luminary bestows upon the earth.
On consulting their books of reference, the colonists found
that Saturn completes his revolution round the sun in a period
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