| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: seems a burning oven; so that there is no travelling here in this
dreadful season, nor is this the only danger to which the unhappy
passenger is exposed in these uncomfortable regions. There blows in
the months of June, July, and August, another wind, which raises
mountains of sand and carries them through the air; all that can be
done in this case is when a cloud of sand rises, to mark where it is
likely to fall, and to retire as far off as possible; but it is very
usual for men to be taken unexpectedly, and smothered in the dust.
One day I found the body of a Christian, whom I knew, upon the sand;
he had doubtless been choked by these winds. I recommended his soul
to the divine mercy and buried him. He seemed to have been some
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: was left alone with the most conflicting sentiments of sorrow,
remorse, and merriment; walking to and fro before his table, and
asking himself, with hands uplifted, which of the pair of them was
most to blame for this unhappy rupture. Presently, he took from a
cupboard a bottle of Rhine wine and a goblet of the deep Bohemian
ruby. The first glass a little warmed and comforted his bosom; with
the second he began to look down upon these troubles from a sunny
mountain; yet a while, and filled with this false comfort and
contemplating life throughout a golden medium, he owned to himself,
with a flush, a smile, and a half-pleasurable sigh, that he had been
somewhat over plain in dealing with his cousin. 'He said the truth,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: MacNelly sat at a table upon which was a lamp and various
papers. Seen in the light he was a fine-looking, soldierly man
of about forty years, dark-haired and dark-eyed, with a bronzed
face, shrewd, stern, strong, yet not wanting in kindliness. He
scanned hastily over some papers, fussed with them, and finally
put them in envelopes. Without looking up he pushed a cigar-
case toward Duane, and upon Duane's refusal to smoke he took a
cigar, rose to light it at the lamp-chimney, and then, settling
back in his chair, he faced Duane, making a vain attempt to
hide what must have been the fulfilment of a long-nourished
curiosity.
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