| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: Jacob Stuck's new palace. They rode along over the carpet of
gold, and such a fine sight was never seen in that land before.
As they drew near to the palace a great crowd of servants, clad
in silks and satins and jewels, came out to meet them, singing
and dancing and playing on harps and lutes. The king and the
princess thought that they must be dreaming.
"All this is yours," said Jacob Stuck to the princess; and he was
that fond of her, he would have given her still more if he could
have thought of anything else.
Jacob Stuck and the princess, and the king and the prime-minister, all went into the palace, and
there was a splendid
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: thought I heard your bell."
"I did not," said Mr. Coulson.
"I'm afraid," said Mrs. Widdup, "I interrupted you
sir, yesterday when you were about to say something."
"How comes it, Mrs. Widdup," said old man Coulson
sternly, "that I find it so cold in this house?"
"Cold, Sir?" said the housekeeper, "why, now, since
you speak of it it do seem cold in this room. But, out-
doors it's as warm and fine as June, sir. And how this
weather do seem to make one's heart jump out of one's
shirt waist, sir. And the ivy all leaved out on the side
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: shone through the glass, filling the air in the interior of the
projectile with silvery reflections. The black curtain of the
firmament in reality heightened the moon's brilliancy, which in
this void of ether unfavorable to diffusion did not eclipse the
neighboring stars. The heavens, thus seen, presented quite a
new aspect, and one which the human eye could never dream of.
One may conceive the interest with which these bold men watched
the orb of night, the great aim of their journey.
In its motion the earth's satellite was insensibly nearing the
zenith, the mathematical point which it ought to attain
ninety-six hours later. Her mountains, her plains, every
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