| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: dream over and over, and it grew more and more beautiful; till, suddenly,
it seemed as though she were standing quite alone. She looked up: on one
side of her was the high precipice, on the other was the river, with the
willow trees, drooping their branches into the water; and the moonlight was
over all. Up, against the night sky the pointed leaves of the kippersol
trees were clearly marked, and the rocks and the willow trees cast dark
shadows.
In her sleep she shivered, and half awoke.
"Ah, I am not there, I am here," she said; and she crept closer to the
rock, and kissed it, and went to sleep again.
It must have been about three o'clock, for the moon had begun to sink
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: With dogged persistence and tenacity of purpose Wetzel stuck to this gradually
fading trail. Every additional rod he was forced to go more slowly, and take
more time in order to find any sign of his enemy's passage through the
forests. One thing struck him forcibly. Wingenund was gradually circling to
the southwest, a course that took him farther and farther from the Delaware
encampment.
Slowly it dawned upon Wetzel that the chief could hardly have any reason for
taking this circling course save that of pride and savage joy in misleading,
in fooling the foe of the Delawares, in deliberately showing Deathwind that
there was one Indian who could laugh at and loose him in the forests. To
Wetzel this was bitter as gall. To be led a wild goose chase! His fierce heart
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: likely to take, and did not wish to be put down by a mere stripling before
all those present:--(if they two had been alone, he would not have
minded):--so he answered, cleverly enough: I think that doing good things
is a work of human agency.
And is virtue in your opinion, Prodicus, innate or acquired by instruction?
The latter, said Prodicus.
Then you would consider him a simpleton who supposed that he could obtain
by praying to the Gods the knowledge of grammar or music or any other art,
which he must either learn from another or find out for himself?
Prodicus agreed to this also.
And when you pray to the Gods that you may do well and receive good, you
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