| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: It was four o'clock in the afternoon. Michael Strogoff,
compelled to wait till nightfall, in order to pass the fortifica-
tions, but not desiring to show himself, remained in the
posting-house, and there partook of food.
There was a great crowd in the public room. They
were talking of the expected arrival of a corps of Musco-
vite troops, not at Omsk, but at Tomsk -- a corps intended
to recapture that town from the Tartars of Feofar-Khan.
Michael Strogoff lent an attentive ear, but took no part
in the conversation. Suddenly a cry made him tremble, a
cry which penetrated to the depths of his soul, and these two
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: This question (of almost the dull insolence of legal phraseology) was
put while we sat in Rousselin's little red-tiled cafe near Congo
Square in New Orleans.
Brown-faced, white-hatted, finger-ringed captains of adventure came
often to Rousselin's for the cognac. They came from sea and land, and
were chary of relating the things they had seen--not because they were
more wonderful than the fantasies of the Ananiases of print, but
because they were so different. And I was a perpetual wedding-guest,
always striving to cast my buttonhole over the finger of one of these
mariners of fortune. This Captain Malone was a Hiberno-Iberian creole
who had gone to and fro in the earth and walked up and down in it. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: as in the case of a human being. Again, a comparatively broad chest is
better alike for strength and beauty, and better adapted to carry the
legs well asunder, so that they will not overlap and interfere with
one another. Again, the neck should not be set on dropping forward
from the chest, like a boar's, but, like that of a game-cock rather,
it should shoot upwards to the crest, and be slack[17] along the
curvature; whilst the head should be bony and the jawbone small. In
this way the neck will be well in front of the rider, and the eye will
command what lies before the horse's feet. A horse, moreover, of this
build, however spirited, will be least capable of overmastering the
rider,[18] since it is not by arching but by stretching out his neck
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