| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: "My father's a parson in Norfolk. Do you see me before a judge
and jury on that charge? For myself I can't see the necessity.
There are fellows that an angel from heaven--And I am not that.
He was one of those creatures that are just simmering
all the time with a silly sort of wickedness.
Miserable devils that have no business to live at all.
He wouldn't do his duty and wouldn't let anybody else do theirs.
But what's the good of talking! You know well enough the sort
of ill-conditioned snarling cur--"
He appealed to me as if our experiences had been as identical as our clothes.
And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: it be a sufficient reason for intercourse that two men sit
together on the same benches. Let the great A be held
excused for nodding to the shabby B in Princes Street, if he
can say, 'That fellow is a student.' Once this could be
brought about, we think you would find the whole heart of the
University beat faster. We think you would find a fusion
among the students, a growth of common feelings, an
increasing sympathy between class and class, whose influence
(in such a heterogeneous company as ours) might be of
incalculable value in all branches of politics and social
progress. It would do more than this. If we could find some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Magic Word. The boy must have been crazy to spoil everything the way
he did, but Ruggedo knew that the arrival of the Wizard had scared
Kiki, and he was not sorry the boy had transformed the Wizard and
Dorothy and made them helpless. It was his own transformation that
annoyed him and made him indignant, so he ran about the forest hunting
for Kiki, so that he might get a better shape and coax the boy to
follow his plans to conquer the Land of Oz.
Kiki Aru hadn't gone very far away, for he had surprised himself as
well as the others by the quick transformations and was puzzled as to
what to do next. Ruggedo the Nome was overbearing and tricky, and
Kiki knew he was not to be depended on; but the Nome could plan and
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