| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: most of it; I mightn't ever have such a chance
again.
We went a-fishing again in the early dawn, and then
lazied around all day in the deep shade on an island,
taking turn about to watch and see that none of the
animals come a-snooping around there after erronorts
for dinner. We was going to leave the next day, but
couldn't, it was too lovely.
The day after, when we rose up toward the sky and
sailed off eastward, we looked back and watched that
place till it warn't nothing but just a speck in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: things that seem to cumber it, sacrificing everything to utility
and success. We fell the last green tree for the sake of raising
an extra hill of potatoes; and never stop to think what an ugly,
barren place we may have to sit in while we eat them. The ideals,
the attachments--yes, even the dreams of youth are worth saving.
For the artificial tastes with which age tries to make good their
loss grow very slowly and cast but a slender shade.
Most of the Canadian farmhouses have their ovens out-of-doors. We
saw them everywhere; rounded edifices of clay, raised on a
foundation of logs, and usually covered with a pointed roof of
boards. They looked like little family chapels--and so they were;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: care of a large family of young children. Wider
horizons opened to his mental vision, his whole
being was quickened and invigorated. "War
and Peace," "Anna Karenina," all the splendid
fruit of the teeming years following upon his mar-
riage, bear witness to the stimulus which his genius
had received. His dawning recognition of the
power and extent of female influence appears in-
cidentally in the sketches of high society in those
two masterpieces as well as in the eloquent closing
passages of "What then must we do?" (1886).
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