| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: he landed on his feet, he saw the white camp spread out before him
and knew where he was and remembered all that had passed from the
time he went for a stroll with Manuel to the hole he had dug for
himself the night before.
A shout from Francois hailed his appearance. "Wot I say?" the
dog-driver cried to Perrault. "Dat Buck for sure learn queek as
anyt'ing."
Perrault nodded gravely. As courier for the Canadian Government,
bearing important despatches, he was anxious to secure the best
dogs, and he was particularly gladdened by the possession of Buck.
Three more huskies were added to the team inside an hour, making a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: a-wailing and suddenly there swept a shadow across that furnace of
despair, and a breath of cold wind, and a gathering of clouds, out
of the cooling air. Men looking up, near blinded, at the star, saw
that a black disc was creeping across the light. It was the moon,
coming between the star and the earth. And even as men cried to
God at this respite, out of the East with a strange inexplicable
swiftness sprang the sun. And then star, sun and moon rushed
together across the heavens.
So it was that presently, to the European watchers, star and
sun rose close upon each other, drove headlong for a space and then
slower, and at last came to rest, star and sun merged into one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: marched with it under his arm, without so much as saying thank
you.
"I wonder," said he to himself, after he had jogged along awhile--"I wonder whether the rich man is
up to another trick such as he
played upon me yesterday?" He put the loaf of bread to his ear
and shook it and shook it, and what should he hear but the chink
of the money within. "Ah ha!" said he, "he has filled it with
rusty nails and bits of iron again, but I will get the better of
him this time."
By-and-by he met a poor woman coming home from market. "Would you
like to buy a fine fresh loaf of bread?" said the beggar.
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