| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: lessons good."
He tore it up, and says:
"I'll give you something better -- I'll give you a
cowhide.
He set there a-mumbling and a-growling a minute,
and then he says:
"AIN'T you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A
bed; and bedclothes; and a look'n'-glass; and a piece
of carpet on the floor -- and your own father got to
sleep with the hogs in the tanyard. I never see such a
son. I bet I'll take some o' these frills out o' you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: pilot-coat, and knitted spencer - some books, and my railway-rug,
which, being also in the form of a bag, made me a double castle for
cold nights. The permanent larder was represented by cakes of
chocolate and tins of Bologna sausage. All this, except what I
carried about my person, was easily stowed into the sheepskin bag;
and by good fortune I threw in my empty knapsack, rather for
convenience of carriage than from any thought that I should want it
on my journey. For more immediate needs I took a leg of cold
mutton, a bottle of Beaujolais, an empty bottle to carry milk, an
egg-beater, and a considerable quantity of black bread and white,
like Father Adam, for myself and donkey, only in my scheme of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Butzow smiled a relieved smile. The king had at last
regained his senses!
Within the ancient cathedral at Lustadt a great and gor-
geously attired assemblage had congregated. All the nobles
of Lutha were gathered there with their wives, their chil-
dren, and their retainers. There were the newer nobility of
the lowlands--many whose patents dated but since the
regency of Peter--and there were the proud nobility of the
highlands--the old nobility of which Prince Ludwig von
der Tann was the chief.
It was noticeable that though a truce had been made
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