| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: hovel and farmstead and suburban villa, and at an enormous
expenditure of will he ignored Amanda's waving flags and roving
glances. So, too, he denied that Amanda who was sharp and shrewd
about money matters, that flash of an Amanda who was greedy for
presents and possessions, that restless Amanda who fretted at any
cessation of excitement, and that darkly thoughtful Amanda whom
chance observations and questions showed to be still considering an
account she had to settle with Lady Marayne. He resisted these
impressions, he shut them out of his mind, but still they worked
into his thoughts, and presently he could find himself asking, even
as he and she went in step striding side by side through the red-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: foot's pace, eagerly conversing in a whisper; and presently
after the moon rose and showed them looking eagerly in each
other's faces as they went, my mother laying her hand upon
the doctor's arm, and the doctor himself, against his usual
custom, making vigorous gestures of protest or asseveration.
At the foot of the track which ascended the talus of the
mountain to his door, the doctor overtook me at a trot.
'Here,' he said, 'we shall dismount; and as your mother
prefers to be alone, you and I shall walk together to my
house.'
'Shall I see her again?' I asked.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: 'Make thou coats of mail and adapt the rings thereof, and do right;
verily, I at what ye do do look.' And to Solomon the wind; its morning
journey was a month, and its evening journey was a month; and we
made to flow for him a fountain of molten brass; and of the ginns some
to work before him by the permission of his Lord; and whoso swerves
amongst them from our bidding we will give him to taste the torment
and the blaze; and they made for him what he pleased of chambers,
and images, and dishes like troughs, and firm pots;- work, O ye family
of David! thankfully;- few is it of my servants who are thankful.
And when we decreed for him death, naught guided them to his death
save a reptile of the earth that ate his staff; and when he fell
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