| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: Next day, a small old Bushman, and a Hottentot, in ragged yellow trousers,
were at a wayside canteen. When the Bushman had had brandy, he began to
tell how something (he did not say whether it was man, woman, or child) had
lifted up its hands and cried for mercy; had kissed a white man's hands,
and cried to him to help it. Then the Hottentot took the Bushman by the
throat, and dragged him out.
Next night, the moon rose up, and mounted the quiet sky. She was full now,
and looked in at the little home; at the purple flowers stuck about the
room, and the kippersol on the shelf. Her light fell on the willow trees,
and on the high rocks, and on a little new-made heap of earth and round
stones. Three men knew what was under it; and no one else ever will.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: went up by-streets without knowing why, anything to keep moving,
for she fancied that so soon as she stood still, the rat in the
pit of her stomach gnawed more eagerly.
At last, she entered what seemed to be, if not a park, at least
some sort of public enclosure. There were many trees; the place
was beautiful; well-kept roads and walks led sinuously and
invitingly underneath the shade. Through the trees upon the
other side of a wide expanse of turf, brown and sear under the
summer sun, she caught a glimpse of tall buildings and a
flagstaff. The whole place had a vaguely public, educational
appearance, and Minna guessed, from certain notices affixed to
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