| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: the world.
By the persuasion of the young woman, continued the corporal, the cart with
the wounded men set off without me: she had assured them I should expire
immediately if I was put into the cart. So when I came to myself--I found
myself in a still quiet cottage, with no one but the young woman, and the
peasant and his wife. I was laid across the bed in the corner of the room,
with my wounded leg upon a chair, and the young woman beside me, holding
the corner of her handkerchief dipp'd in vinegar to my nose with one hand,
and rubbing my temples with the other.
I took her at first for the daughter of the peasant (for it was no inn)--so
had offer'd her a little purse with eighteen florins, which my poor brother
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: R. all the way from Scranton to Cincinnati--dry gin, French vermouth,
one squeeze of a lime, and a good dash of orange bitters. If you're
ever up that way, don't fail to let one try you. And, again,' says I,
'I have never yet went back on a friend. I've stayed by 'em when
they had plenty, and when adversity's overtaken me I've never forsook 'em.
"'But,' I goes on, 'this is not exactly the case of a friend. Twelve
dollars a month is only bowing-acquaintance money. And I do not
consider brown beans and corn-bread the food of friendship. I am a
poor man,' says I, 'and I have a widowed mother in Texarkana. You
will find Black Bill,' says I, 'lying asleep in this house on a cot in
the room to your right. He's the man you want, as I know from his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Von Mayringen, the latter with Amster entered another cab. A
well-armed policeman mounted the box of this second vehicle. "Follow
that cab ahead," the commissioner told his driver. The second cab
followed the one-horse coupe in which Muller was seated. They drove
first to No. 14 Cathedral Lane, where Muller told Berner to come
with him. He found Mr. Fellner ready to go also, and it was with
great difficulty that he could dissuade the invalid, who was greatly
fatigued by his morning visit to the police station, from joining
them.
The carriages then drove off more quickly than before. It was now
quite dark, a gloomy stormy winter evening. Muller had taken his
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