| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: leapt like flame. For oh! the terror in her sweet eyes,
the repulsion, the horror, told a story to my heart that was
all of hope. God be thanked she was not, yet of them.
I seized some of the firewood which was by me, and holding
out some of the Wafer, advanced on them towards the fire.
They drew back before me, and laughed their low horrid laugh. I fed
the fire, and feared them not. For I knew that we were safe within
the ring, which she could not leave no more than they could enter.
The horses had ceased to moan, and lay still on the ground.
The snow fell on them softly, and they grew whiter.
I knew that there was for the poor beasts no more of terror.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: a man on a railway. He may change his mind at every finger-post,
and, where ways meet, follow vague preferences freely and go the low
road or the high, choose the shadow or the sun-shine, suffer himself
to be tempted by the lane that turns immediately into the woods, or
the broad road that lies open before him into the distance, and shows
him the far-off spires of some city, or a range of mountain-tops, or
a rim of sea, perhaps, along a low horizon. In short, he may gratify
his every whim and fancy, without a pang of reproving conscience, or
the least jostle to his self-respect. It is true, however, that most
men do not possess the faculty of free action, the priceless gift of
being able to live for the moment only; and as they begin to go
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: never witnessed it. It is, besides, as you are to hear, a
piece of prehistoric history, crystallised in figures, and
the facts largely forgotten; an acted hieroglyph. The house
is really splendid; in the rafters in the midst, two carved
and coloured model birds are posted; the only thing of the
sort I have ever remarked in Samoa, the Samoans being literal
observers of the second commandment. At one side of the egg
our party sat. a=Mataafa, b=Lady J., c=Belle, d=Tusitala,
e=Graham, f=Lloyd, g=Captain Leigh, h=Henry, i=Popo. The x's
round are the high chiefs, each man in his historical
position. One side of the house is set apart for the King
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