| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: "Reckon I'm feelin' as well as could be expected," replied
Laramie. His head was circled by a bandage that did not conceal
the lump where he had been struck. He looked pale, but was
bright enough.
"That was a good crack Snecker gave you," remarked Duane.
"I ain't accusin' Bo," remonstrated Laramie, with eyes that
made Duane thoughtful.
"Well, I accuse him. I caught him--took him to Longstreth's
court. But they let him go."
Laramie appeared to be agitated by this intimation of
friendship.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: says the report, claiming that as long as she could do her work, it
was nobody's business. In a doorway sat a sickly and bloodless woman
in an advanced stage of pregnancy. Her first baby had died of general
debility. She had worked at night in the mill until the very day of
its birth. This time the boss had told her she could stay if she
wished, but reminded her of what had happened last time. So she had
stopped work, as the baby was expected any day.
Again and again we read the same story, which varied only in detail:
the mother in the three black rooms; the sagging porch overflowing
with pale and sickly children; the over-worked mother of seven, still
nursing her youngest, who is two or three months old. Worn and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: down, when anything comes, and so we go on) was rather wearisome at
first, but we adopted it with an eye to the long run; you're in
better order - if your legs don't break down! - and you can keep it
up for more years. Oh we're practical - we're practical!" St.
George repeated, going to the table and taking up all mechanically
the bundle of proofs. But, pulling off the wrapper, he had a
change of attention that appealed afresh to our hero. He lost
himself a moment, examining the sheets of his new book, while the
younger man's eyes wandered over the room again.
"Lord, what good things I should do if I had such a charming place
as this to do them in!" Paul reflected. The outer world, the world
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