| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: or manner whatsoever, upon the penalty provided by the law, to be
duly and severely executed upon them.
Plays.
'That all plays, bear-baitings, games, singing of ballads, buckler-
play, or such-like causes of assemblies of people be utterly prohibited,
and the parties offending severely punished by every
alderman in his ward.
Feasting prohibited.
'That all public feasting, and particularly by the companies of this
city, and dinners at taverns, ale-houses, and other places of common
entertainment, be forborne till further order and allowance; and that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: into lamps to keep the oil from exploding?'
"'Oil,' says I, 'never explodes. It's the gas that forms that
explodes.' But I shakes hands with him, anyway.
"'My name's Bill Bassett,' says he to me, 'and if you'll call it
professional pride instead of conceit, I'll inform you that you have
the pleasure of meeting the best burglar that ever set a gum-shoe on
ground drained by the Mississippi River.'
"Well, me and this Bill Bassett sits on the ties and exchanges brags
as artists in kindred lines will do. It seems he didn't have a cent,
either, and we went into close caucus. He explained why an able
burglar sometimes had to travel on freights by telling me that a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: entrance to the city first, nor did he doubt, that once within,
his keen senses would eventually reveal the whereabouts of
those whom he sought.
The low sun was casting long shadows across the gardens
when Tarzan saw the workers returning from the eastern field.
A man came first, and as he came he lowered little gates along
the large ditch of running water, shutting off the streams that
had run between the rows of growing plants; and behind him
came other men carrying burdens of fresh vegetables in great
woven baskets upon their shoulders. Tarzan had not realized
that there had been so many men working in the field, but
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