| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: of night. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery.
Quivers which resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass.
In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general
rounds of the English camp were audible.
Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in
the west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined
by the cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace
of rubies with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended
in an immense semicircle over the hills along the horizon.
We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart
is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: way through the undergrowth.
She had tried it once, and failed. Now she realized that it
would be but a matter of minutes ere the whole space between
the north and the south would be a seething mass of
billowing flames.
Calmly the girl kneeled down in the dust of the roadway
and prayed for strength to meet her fate bravely, and for the
delivery of her father and her friends from death.
Suddenly she heard her name being called aloud through
the forest:
"Jane! Jane Porter!" It rang strong and clear, but in a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: sending up its smoke.
At last the path crossed the Chassezac upon a bridge, and,
forsaking this deep hollow, set itself to cross the mountain of La
Goulet. It wound up through Lestampes by upland fields and woods
of beech and birch, and with every corner brought me into an
acquaintance with some new interest. Even in the gully of the
Chassezac my ear had been struck by a noise like that of a great
bass bell ringing at the distance of many miles; but this, as I
continued to mount and draw nearer to it, seemed to change in
character, and I found at length that it came from some one leading
flocks afield to the note of a rural horn. The narrow street of
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