| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: the fever.
The character of the jungle along the river changed
imperceptibly, the dhum palms crowding out the other trees;
until, at our last camp, were nothing but palms. The wind in them
sounded variously like the patter or the gathering onrush of
rain. On either side the country remained unchanged, however. The
volcanic hills rolled away to the distant ranges. Everywhere grew
sparsely the low thornbrush, opening sometimes into clear plains,
closing sometimes into dense thickets. One morning we awoke to
find that many supposedly sober-minded trees had burst into
blossom fairly over night. They were red, and yellow and white
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: interfered with and impeded his own plans, he exclaimed
against the perpetrators, and spoke of the
broken laws, and the infringement of public order
and of private property, in a tone which might have
become King Alfred.
``The unprincipled marauders,'' he said---``were
I ever to become monarch of England, I would
hang such transgressors over the drawbridges of
their own castles.''
``But to become monarch of England,'' said his
Ahithophel coolly, ``it is necessary not only that your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: killed the man. So we was mighty sorry we found the body,
and was bound to save Uncle Silas's neck if we could;
and it was going to be tough work, too, because he
wouldn't let us break him out of prison the way we done
with our old nigger Jim.
"I done everything I could the whole month to think up
some way to save Uncle Silas, but I couldn't strike
a thing. So when we come into court to-day I come empty,
and couldn't see no chance anywheres. But by and by I had
a glimpse of something that set me thinking--just a little
wee glimpse--only that, and not enough to make sure;
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