| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: And it was as if the ship had two captains to plan her course for her.
I had been so worried and restless running up and down that I
had not had the patience to dress that day. I had remained
in my sleeping suit, with straw slippers and a soft floppy hat.
The closeness of the heat in the gulf had been most oppressive,
and the crew were used to seeing me wandering in that airy attire.
"She will clear the south point as she heads now," I whispered into his ear.
"Goodness only knows when, though, but certainly after dark.
I'll edge her in to half a mile, as far as I may be able to judge
in the dark--"
"Be careful," he murmured, warningly--and I realized suddenly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: there were guards, and obdurate fathers, and walking gentlemen.
Nothing particular took place during the two or three acts that I
sat out; but you will he pleased to learn that the unities were
properly respected, and the whole piece, with one exception, moved
in harmony with classical rules. That exception was the comic
countryman, a lean marionnette in wooden shoes, who spoke in prose
and in a broad PATOIS much appreciated by the audience. He took
unconstitutional liberties with the person of his sovereign; kicked
his fellow-marionnettes in the mouth with his wooden shoes, and
whenever none of the versifying suitors were about, made love to
Thisbe on his own account in comic prose.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: head, I trust, will after a few days have become united to my
shoulders; and, for the present, your company will make me forget
any slight discomfort."
"Pardon me, senor; but by this daylight I should have seen that
armor before."
"I doubt it not, senor, as having been yourself also in the
forefront of the battle," said the Spaniard, with a proud smile.
"If I am right, senor, you are he who yesterday held up the
standard after it was shot down."
"I do not deny that undeserved honor; and I have to thank the
courtesy of you and your countrymen for having permitted me to do
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