| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: only about chickens or an odd knife or an odd stick of tobacco; and
the best I could do was to sit quiet till the vessel left, then
come straight to his house, see old Captain Randall, the father of
the beach, take pot-luck, and go home to sleep when it got dark.
So it was high noon, and the schooner was under way before I set my
foot on shore at Falesa.
I had a glass or two on board; I was just off a long cruise, and
the ground heaved under me like a ship's deck. The world was like
all new painted; my foot went along to music; Falesa might have
been Fiddler's Green, if there is such a place, and more's the pity
if there isn't! It was good to foot the grass, to look aloft at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: or look that meant a great deal.
"And now, who do you think he is? He says he knows you. Can you
guess? He says you know all his secrets. He says he knows your
husband well; that he treated you very badly, and that you are
greatly to be pitied. Can you guess now? He says he has kissed
you--for shame, Hetty! Have you guessed yet? He was going to tell
me something more when we were interrupted, and I have not seen
him since except at a distance. He is the man with whom you
eloped that day when you gave us all such a fright--Mr. Sidney. I
was the first to penetrate his disguise; and that very morning I
had taxed him with it, and he had confessed it. He said then that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: so young, so ignorant, as not to understand what he meant when he
said that the land was the one thing in the world worth fighting
for.
"For 'tis the only thing in the world that lasts . . . and to
anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is
like their mother. . . . 'Tis the only thing worth working for,
fighting for, dying for."
Yes, Tara was worth fighting for, and she accepted simply and
without question the fight. No one was going to get Tara away from
her. No one was going to set her and her people adrift on the
charity of relatives. She would hold Tara, if she had to break the
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