| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: "Of course I do! It's enough to break the horses' necks, and knock one up
for the whole day besides," he added testily; then twisted his head to look
at the buggy that came on behind. "I thought Waldo was such a mad driver;
they are taking it easily enough today," said Gregory. "One would think
the black stallions were lame."
"I suppose they want to keep out of our dust," said Em. "See, they stand
still as soon as we do."
Perceiving this to be the case, Gregory rode on.
"It's all that horse of yours: she kicks up such a confounded dust, I
can't stand it myself," he said.
Meanwhile the cart came on slowly enough.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: difficulty and looked beneath for the fine fur that is common with
northern animals, but found it in this case to be absent. This,
however, was compensated for by the length. Indeed, the tufts that
had survived wear and tear measured all of seven or eight inches.
I looked up into the man's face, and he pulled his foot down and
asked, "Find hide like that on your St Elias bear?"
I shook my head. "Nor on any other creature of land or sea," I
answered candidly. The thickness of it, and the length of the
hair, puzzled me.
"That," he said, and said without the slightest hint of
impressiveness, "that came from a mammoth."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: salvation. Still, no sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest. On
the contrary, it seemed, that mainly at Steelkilt's instigation, they
had resolved to maintain the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders
to the last, and, when the ship reached port, desert her in a body.
But in order to insure the speediest end to the voyage, they all
agreed to another thing--namely, not to sing out for whales, in case
any should be discovered. For, spite of her leak, and spite of all her
other perils, the Town-Ho still maintained her mast-heads, and her
captain was just as willing to lower for a fish that moment, as on
the day his craft first struck the cruising ground; and Radney the mate
was quite as ready to change his berth for a boat, and with his
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