| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: "And this is Billina," continued Dorothy, introducing the yellow hen,
and they all bowed to her in turn.
"I've such wonderful news," said the hen, turning her head so that one
bright eye looked full at Dorothy.
"What is it, dear?" asked the girl.
"I've hatched out ten of the loveliest chicks you ever saw."
"Oh, how nice! And where are they, Billina?"
"I left them at home. But they're beauties, I assure you, and all
wonderfully clever. I've named them Dorothy."
"Which one?" asked the girl.
"All of them," replied Billina.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: said, God himself would one day reign. But instead, a group of
wicked men broke in and chopped the tree down. They hacked the tree
into a beam and nailed a holy man to it, leaving him to die upon a
hill. So the tree of hope now had become a beam covered with blood
and death. "See here," the wicked men said, laughing with scorn,
"in what manner God's promises are fulfilled."
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The chairman of the department asked the young professor how his
book was coming along. Said the professor, "Oh, the book is already
written; I just haven't put it down on paper yet." The chairman
patted the man on the back and told him to keep up the good work.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and castle were very fair things in themselves, and would be
pretty appurtenances to an adventurous knight; but they would
be doubly valuable as certain passports to the father's favour,
which was one step towards that of the daughter, or at least
towards obtaining possession of her either quietly or perforce;
for the knight was not so nice in his love as to consider
the lady's free grace a sine qua non: and to think of being,
by any means whatever, the lord of Locksley and Arlingford,
and the husband of the bewitching Matilda, was to cut in the shades
of futurity a vista very tempting to a soldier of fortune.
He set out in high spirits with a chosen band of followers,
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