| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: before."
"Not I," said the fisherman, "I go out no more this night. I have
been fishing all day long until my back is nearly broken, and
have caught nothing, and now I am not such a fool as to go out
and leave a warm fire and a good supper at your bidding."
But the fisherman's wife had listened to what the old man had
said about paying for the job, and she was of a different mind
from her husband. "Come," said she, "the old man promises to pay
you well. This is not a chance to be lost, I can tell you, and my
advice to you is that you go."
The fisherman shook his head. No, he would not go; he had said he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: communicate.
The frequent assemblies which the viceroy held had already been much
talked of; and I had received advice that he was ready for a revolt,
and that my death was to be the first signal of an open war.
Knowing that the viceroy had made many complaints of the treatment
he received from his father-in-law, I made no doubt that he had some
ill design in hand; and yet could scarce persuade myself that after
all the tokens of friendship I had received from him he would enter
into any measures for destroying me. While I was yet in suspense, I
despatched a faithful servant to the viceroy with my excuse for
disobeying him; and gave the messenger strict orders to observe all
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: the shallows like a long snake, and the little tired ripples
hissed as they dried on its hot side.
It was here that Mowgli came nightly for the cool and the
companionship. The most hungry of his enemies would hardly have
cared for the boy then, His naked hide made him seem more lean
and wretched than any of his fellows. His hair was bleached to
tow colour by the sun; his ribs stood out like the ribs of a
basket, and the lumps on his knees and elbows, where he was used
to track on all fours, gave his shrunken limbs the look of
knotted grass-stems. But his eye, under his matted forelock,
was cool and quiet, for Bagheera was his adviser in this time
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