| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: tumble-down hovel, built of rough stones, daubed over with a coat of
yellowish stucco, and so riven with great cracks that there seemed to
be danger lest the slightest puff of wind might blow it down. The
roof, covered with brown moss-grown tiles, had given way in several
places, and looked as though it might break down altogether under the
weight of the snow. The frames of the three windows on each story were
rotten with damp and warped by the sun; evidently the cold must find
its way inside. The house standing thus quite by itself looked like
some old tower that Time had forgotten to destroy. A faint light shone
from the attic windows pierced at irregular distances in the roof;
otherwise the whole building was in total darkness.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: powerless; I was unable to direct them.
I hardly know what happened after that. A feeling of most
intense suffocation in my chest; a relaxation of all my muscles; a
sensation of light in my smarting eyes; a gentle pressure from the
water beneath, like the rising gait of a saddle-horse; and
suddenly, without knowing why or when or how, I found myself lying
on hard ground, gasping, choking, sputtering, not far from death,
but nearer to life than I had thought ever to be again.
I lay for several minutes unable to move; then my brain awoke
and called for life. I twisted over on my face, and moved my arms
out and in with the motion of a swimmer; the most exquisite pains
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
SA1 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of
war from his youth.
SA1 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's
sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the
flock:
SA1 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out
of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard,
and smote him, and slew him.
SA1 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this
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