| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: on you, too, and they would let you hold their babies, the way they
do me, and they ARE the fattest, and brownest, and sweetest little
things, and never cry, and wouldn't if they had pins sticking in
them, which they haven't, because they are poor and can't afford
it; and the horses and mules and cattle and dogs - hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds, and not an animal that you can't do what you
please with, except uncle Thomas, but I don't mind him, he's
lovely; and oh, if you could hear the bugles: TOO - TOO - TOO-TOO
- TOO - TOO, and so on - perfectly beautiful! Do you recognize
that one? It's the first toots of the REVEILLE; it goes, dear me,
SO early in the morning! - then I and every other soldier on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: my father? Throw down that sword, Thomas.'
'As for winning you, it seems that there is small chance of it;' I
answered hotly, 'but I tell you this, not for the sake of all the
maids upon the earth will I stand to be beaten with a stick like a
scullion.'
'And there I do not blame you, lad,' said her father, more kindly.
'I see that you also have courage which may serve you in good
stead, and it was unworthy of me to call you "pill-box" in my
anger. Still, as I have said, the girl is not for you, so be gone
and forget her as best you may, and if you value your life, never
let me find you two kissing again. And know that to-morrow I will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it
with stiff fore legs. His most conspicuous trait was an ability to
scent the wind and forecast it a night in advance. No matter how
breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind
that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and
snug.
And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead
became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him.
In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the
time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and
killed their meat as they ran it down. It was no task for him to
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