| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: from isle to isle about the archipelago, and by his aid, within the
century, persons have been seen to fly. The tutelar deity of each
isle is likewise helpful, and by a particular form of wedge-shaped
cloud on the horizon announces the coming of a ship.
To one who conceives of these atolls, so narrow, so barren, so
beset with sea, here would seem a superfluity of ghostly denizens.
And yet there are more. In the various brackish pools and ponds,
beautiful women with long red hair are seen to rise and bathe; only
(timid as mice) on the first sound of feet upon the coral they dive
again for ever. They are known to be healthy and harmless living
people, dwellers of an underworld; and the same fancy is current in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: Easton. When we got there, we were delivered up
to the sheriff, Mr. Joseph Graham, and by him
placed in jail. Henry, John, and myself, were placed
in one room together--Charles, and Henry Bailey,
in another. Their object in separating us was to
hinder concert.
We had been in jail scarcely twenty minutes,
when a swarm of slave traders, and agents for slave
traders, flocked into jail to look at us, and to as-
certain if we were for sale. Such a set of beings I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "When you looked through the keyhole last night, are you sure that
the Professor was still alive?"
"Why, yes, sir; of course I couldn't say so surely. I thought he
was reading or writing, but oh, dear Lord! there he was this morning,
nearly twelve hours later, in just the same position." Johann
shivered at the thought that he might have seen his master sitting
at his desk, already a corpse.
"He must have been dead when you came home. Don't you think the
sound of that shot would have wakened you?"
"Yes, sir, I think likely, sir," murmured Johann. "But if the
murderer could get into the house, how could he get into the
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