| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White:
The markers, squatted on their heels, told over the bits of ears
they had saved. The total amounted to but an hundred and
seventy-five. Everybody went to searching for the missing bit.
It was not forth-coming. Finally Wooden discovered it in his hip
pocket.
"Felt her thar all the time," said he, "but thought it must
shorely be a chaw of tobacco."
This matter satisfactorily adjusted, the men all ran for their
ponies. They had been doing a wrestler's heavy work all the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: blessing that I came alongst with you."
"What else would I be thinking all this time?" says she, and I thought
weighed a little on my arm. "It is you that are the good friend to
me."
CHAPTER XXIII - TRAVELS IN HOLLAND
THE rattel-waggon, which is a kind of a long waggon set with benches,
carried us in four hours of travel to the great city of Rotterdam. It
was long past dark by then, but the streets were pretty brightly
lighted and thronged with wild-like, outlandish characters - bearded
Hebrews, black men, and the hordes of courtesans, most indecently
adorned with finery and stopping seamen by their very sleeves; the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: struck out for another of these little islands, and it was from
that one that I first saw your riding-light. Something to swim
for. I went on easily, and on the way I came upon a flat rock a
foot or two above water. In the daytime, I dare say, you might
make it out with a glass from your poop. I scrambled up on it and
rested myself for a bit. Then I made another start. That last
spell must have been over a mile."
His whisper was getting fainter and fainter, and all the time he
stared straight out through the port-hole, in which there was not
even a star to be seen. I had not interrupted him. There was
something that made comment impossible in his narrative, or perhaps
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