| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: Among the daisies and the violets blue,
Red hyacinth, and yellow daffodil,
Purple Narcissus like the morning rays,
Pale gander-grass, and azure culver-keys.
I count it higher pleasure to behold
The stately compass of the lofty sky;
And in the midst thereof, like burning gold,
The flaming chariot of the world's great eye:
The watery clouds that in the air up-roll'd
With sundry kinds of painted colours fly;
And fair Aurora, lifting up her head,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: how much? And when?"
"About a year. They'll pay ten per cent. half yearly, and be
worth thirty thousand. I know all about it; the advertisement
is in the Cincinnati paper here."
"Land, thirty thousand for ten--in a year! Let's jam in the whole
capital and pull out ninety! I'll write and subscribe right now--
tomorrow it maybe too late."
He was flying to the writing-desk, but Aleck stopped him and put
him back in his chair. She said:
"Don't lose your head so. WE mustn't subscribe till we've got
the money; don't you know that?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: slipped from my open mouth. The old servant stared at me, not knowing
what to think.
"Oh, sir! is it bad news?"
I answered for I kept few secrets from this faithful soul by reading
her the letter from end to end. She listened with much anxiety.
"A joke, without doubt," said I, shrugging my shoulders.
"Well," returned my superstitious handmaid, "if it isn't from the
devil, it's from the devil's country, anyway."
Left alone, I again went over this unexpected letter. Reflection
inclined me yet more strongly to believe that it was the work of a
practical joker. My adventure was well known. The newspapers had
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