| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: was brought to him. The first paragraph that caught his eye,
announced the arrival of Mr. Stuart and his party at St. Louis,
with intelligence that Mr. Hunt and his companions had effected
their perilous expedition to the mouth of the Columbia. This was
a gleam of sunshine that for a time dispelled every cloud, and he
now looked forward with sanguine hope to the accomplishment of
all his plans.
CHAPTER Lll.
Banks of the Wallah-Wallah.- Departure of David Stuart for the
Oakinagan.- Mr. Clarke's Route Up Lewis River.- Chipunnish, or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laund'ring the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;
As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.
Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride;
As they did battery to the spheres intend;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To th' orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: And as she finished speaking I saw her raise a dagger on high,
and then I saw another figure. It was Thuvia's. As the
dagger fell toward the unprotected breast of my love, Thuvia
was almost between them. A blinding gust of smoke
blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek
rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell.
The smoke cleared away, but we stood gazing upon a
blank wall. The last crevice had closed, and for a long
year that hideous chamber would retain its secret from the
eyes of men.
They urged me to leave.
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