| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: anchor. The wind was howling out of the northwest, and we were on
a lee shore. Ahead and astern, all escape was cut off by rocky
headlands, against whose bases burst the unbroken seas. To
windward a short distance, seen only between the snow-squalls, was
a low rocky reef. It was this that inadequately protected us from
the whole Yellow Sea that thundered in upon us.
The Japanese crawled under a communal rice mat and went to sleep.
I joined them, and for several hours we dozed fitfully. Then a
sea deluged us out with icy water, and we found several inches of
snow on top the mat. The reef to windward was disappearing under
the rising tide, and moment by moment the seas broke more strongly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "I say," said Robin, "this seems to me an unfit match.
What, in the devil's name, can you want with a young wife,
who have one foot in flannels and the other in the grave?"
"What is that to thee, sirrah varlet?" said the old knight;
"stand away from the porch, or I will fracture thy sconce
with my cane."
"I will not stand away from the porch," said Robin, "unless the bride bid me,
and tell me that you are her own true love."
"Speak," said the bride's father, in a severe tone, and with a look
of significant menace. The girl looked alternately at her father
and Robin. She attempted to speak, but her voice failed in the effort,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: "Certainly. Don't you?"
"No, sir. Animals talk to one another. I know it perfectly well,
Marse Tom, and I ain't saying it by guess."
"What a curious superstition!"
"It ain't a superstition, Marse Tom. Look at that Shekels - look
at him, NOW. Is he listening, or ain't he? NOW you see! he's
turned his head away. It's because he was caught - caught in the
act. I'll ask you - could a Christian look any more ashamed than
what he looks now? - LAY DOWN! You see? he was going to sneak out.
Don't tell ME, Marse Tom! If animals don't talk, I miss MY guess.
And Shekels is the worst. He goes and tells the animals everything
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