| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: each locality, it is no wonder that his hearers look back on that
evening as the most tiresome they ever spent.
Long before Mr Finsbury had reached Nijni-Novgorod with the
income of one hundred and sixty pounds, the company had dwindled
and faded away to a few old topers and the bored but affable
Watts. There was a constant stream of customers from the outer
world, but so soon as they were served they drank their liquor
quickly and departed with the utmost celerity for the next
public-house.
By the time the young man with two hundred a year was vegetating
in the Scilly Islands, Mr Watts was left alone with the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: but presently when I was tired of weeping and tossing myself
about, I said, 'And who shall guide me upon this voyage--for the
house of Hades is a port that no ship can reach.'
"'You will want no guide,' she answered; 'raise your mast, set
your white sails, sit quite still, and the North Wind will blow
you there of itself. When your ship has traversed the waters of
Oceanus, you will reach the fertile shore of Proserpine's
country with its groves of tall poplars and willows that shed
their fruit untimely; here beach your ship upon the shore of
Oceanus, and go straight on to the dark abode of Hades. You will
find it near the place where the rivers Pyriphlegethon and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: "and the presence of this ring, and the manner in which it has
come into our possession, are not the most mysterious of them.
The explosion itself appears to me, just now, at least, hard to
account for."
"The manner in which people get into and out of the hold of your
vessel is also obscure," said Lady Agatha.
"Nor is the motive of their hostility clear," said Cleggett.
He picked up the piece of paper money. Something about the feel
of it aroused his suspicions. He called Elmer, and when that
exponent of reform entered the cabin, asked him bluntly:
"Did you ever have anything to do with bad money?"
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