| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: warn't fit to eat. It seemed to me we had felt as sorry
for them poor people as a person could for anybody,
and as mournful, too, but we was mistaken; this last
caravan's death went harder with us, a good deal
harder. You see, the others was total strangers, and
we never got to feeling acquainted with them at all,
except, maybe, a little with the man that was watching
the girl, but it was different with this last caravan. We
was huvvering around them a whole night and 'most a
whole day, and had got to feeling real friendly with
them, and acquainted. I have found out that there
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: rites,
Thee whose face shines with butter,-at your glad carouse-bright,
with
eyes most observant. Thou art waxing great.
8 Wide and aloft thou spreadest thee, O Agni, with tby brilliant
flame.
A Bull art thou when bellowing,-at your glad carouse-thou dost
impregn
the Sisters. Thou art waxing great.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: had given thought enough to that indication: hadn't I even made up
my mind that it was vain and would lead nowhere? The importance
they attached to it was irritating and quite envenomed my doubts.
That statement looks unamiable, and what probably happened was that
I felt humiliated at seeing other persons deeply beguiled by an
experiment that had brought me only chagrin. I was out in the cold
while, by the evening fire, under the lamp, they followed the chase
for which I myself had sounded the horn. They did as I had done,
only more deliberately and sociably - they went over their author
from the beginning. There was no hurry, Corvick said -the future
was before them and the fascination could only grow; they would
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