| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: condoling with him.
"If he'd only recollected to saw off the horn of his saddle, then
he couldn't 'a' found it when he went to hunt leather,"
mournfully commented one puncher in a shirt of robin's egg blue.
"'Twould have been most as good as to take the dust, wouldn't
it?" retorted Texas gently, and the laugh was on the gentleman in
blue, because he had been thrown earlier in the day.
"A fellow's hands sure get in his way sometimes. I reckon if
you'd tied your hands, Tex, you'd been riding that rocking-hawss
yet," suggested Denver amiably.
"Sometimes it's his foot he puts in it. There was onct a gent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: But it is not corrupted. I too have at last
Lived to learn that love is not--such love as is past,
Such love as youth dreams of at least--the sole part
Of life, which is able to fill up the heart;
Even that of a woman.
"Between you and me
Heaven fixes a gulf, over which you must see
That our guardian angels can bear us no more.
We each of us stand on an opposite shore.
Trust a woman's opinion for once. Women learn,
By an instinct men never attain, to discern
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: ant came out of a hole and seized it and pulling it down into the hole.
Just before you woke up, we saw that very butterfly come out of the hole
again, and flutter over your face as before. And then it suddenly
disappeared: we do not know where it went."
"Perhaps it was Akinosuke's soul," the other goshi said;-- "certainly I
thought I saw it fly into his mouth... But, even if that butterfly was
Akinosuke's soul, the fact would not explain his dream."
"The ants might explain it," returned the first speaker. "Ants are queer
beings -- possibly goblins... Anyhow, there is a big ant's nest under that
cedar-tree."...
"Let us look!" cried Akinosuke, greatly moved by this suggestion. And he
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