| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: melancholy desert by the skeletons of men and animals. Then
they inclined their route a little to the north, and, losing
even these dire memorials, came into a country of forbidding
stillness.
I have often heard my father dwell upon the features of that
ride: rock, cliff, and barren moor alternated; the streams
were very far between; and neither beast nor bird disturbed
the solitude. On the fortieth day they had already run so
short of food that it was judged advisable to call a halt and
scatter upon all sides to hunt. A great fire was built, that
its smoke might serve to rally them; and each man of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Exeunt.
Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
Enter a Doctor of Physicke, and a Wayting Gentlewoman.
Doct. I haue too Nights watch'd with you, but can
perceiue no truth in your report. When was it shee last
walk'd?
Gent. Since his Maiesty went into the Field, I haue
seene her rise from her bed, throw her Night-Gown vppon
her, vnlocke her Closset, take foorth paper, folde it,
write vpon't, read it, afterwards Seale it, and againe returne
to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleepe
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "will you ask your fortune?"
"Not for worlds," said she, drawing back; "I have heard enough of
yours."
"Well, then," said Miss Ilderton, offering money to the Dwarf,
"I'll pay for mine, as if it were spoken by an oracle to a
princess."
"Truth," said the Soothsayer, "can neither be bought nor sold;"
and he pushed back her proffered offering with morose disdain.
"Well, then," said the lady, "I'll keep my money, Mr. Elshender,
to assist me in the chase I am to pursue."
"You will need it," replied the cynic; "without it, few pursue
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