| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: duck in thunder; for the water was up to his chin, and still the
lobster held on.
And then came a man-of-war's boat round the Mewstone, and saw his
head sticking up out of the water. One said it was a keg of
brandy, and another that it was a cocoa-nut, and another that it
was a buoy loose, and another that it was a black diver, and wanted
to fire at it, which would not have been pleasant for the mayor:
but just then such a yell came out of a great hole in the middle of
it that the midshipman in charge guessed what it was, and bade pull
up to it as fast as they could. So somehow or other the Jack-tars
got the lobster out, and set the mayor free, and put him ashore at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Nehemiah 3: 5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; and their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord.
Nehemiah 3: 6 And the gate of the old city repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.
Nehemiah 3: 7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, for them that appertained to the throne of the governor beyond the River.
Nehemiah 3: 8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. And next unto him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they restored Jerusalem even unto the broad wall.
Nehemiah 3: 9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 3: 10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah.
Nehemiah 3: 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
Nehemiah 3: 12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
Nehemiah 3: 13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits of the wall 
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: character.'
'I swear it,' said I, 'by my father's memory; and that is a
vow that I will never break.'
'I have considerably better hold on you than any oath,'
returned Sir George, with a chuckle; 'for you are not only an
escaped slave, but have, by your own account, a considerable
amount of stolen property.'
I was struck dumb; I saw it was too true; in a glance, I
recognised that these jewels were no longer mine; with
similar quickness, I decided they should be restored, ay, if
it cost me the liberty that I had just regained. Forgetful
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