| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: which sorrowfully misbecame his bulk; his nose was hooked and
cruel, his body overcome with sodden corpulence, his eye timorous
and dull: he seemed at once oppressed with drowsiness and held
awake by apprehension: a pepper rajah muddled with opium, and
listening for the march of a Dutch army, looks perhaps not
otherwise. We were to grow better acquainted, and first and last I
had the same impression; he seemed always drowsy, yet always to
hearken and start; and, whether from remorse or fear, there is no
doubt he seeks a refuge in the abuse of drugs.
The rajah displayed no sign of interest in our coming. But the
queen, who sat beside him in a purple sacque, was more accessible;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: king's navy -- a "ship" no bigger than a steam
launch -- and was soon ready.
The parting -- ah, yes, that was hard. As I was
devouring the child with last kisses, it brisked up and
jabbered out its vocabulary! -- the first time in more
than two weeks, and it made fools of us for joy. The
darling mispronunciations of childhood! -- dear me,
there's no music that can touch it; and how one
grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correct-
ness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.
Well, how good it was to be able to carry that gracious
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: was getting into a rather bad state - all the worse because I
could not account for it.
An indication of my poor nervous health
can be gained from my response to an odd discovery which I made
on one of my nocturnal rambles. It was on the evening of July
l1th, when the moon flooded the mysterious hillocks with a curious
pallor.
Wandering somewhat beyond my usual limits, I came upon
a great stone which seemed to differ markedly from any we had
yet encountered. It was almost wholly covered, but I stooped and
cleared away the sand with my hands, later studying the object
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