| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: he never could remember his protege's Chaldean name, called him simply
"the Asiatic." From time to time the little fellow sprang up and
played about the dining-table, and his antics appeared to amuse the
guests.
At one side of the tetrarch's pavilion were the tables at which were
seated his priests and officers; also a number of persons from
Jerusalem, and the more important men from the Grecian cities. At the
table on the left of the proconsul sat Marcellus with the publicans,
several friends of the tetrarch, and various representatives from
Cana, Ptolemais, and Jericho. Seated at other tables were mountaineers
from Liban and many of the old soldiers of Herod's army; a dozen
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson: revolver had been taken from me.
"You see I have you in my power," he continued. "I disarmed you
last night while you were nursing Clara; but this morning - here -
take your pistol. No thanks!" he cried, holding up his hand. "I
do not like them; that is the only way you can annoy me now."
He began to walk forward across the links to meet the boat, and I
followed a step or two behind. In front of the pavilion I paused
to see where Mr. Huddlestone had fallen; but there was no sign of
him, nor so much as a trace of blood.
"Graden Floe," said Northmour.
He continued to advance till we had come to the head of the beach.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: substantial curtain than its moon-thrown shadow; sometimes
again it crawled upon the earth, and I would walk in it, no
higher than to my shoulders, like some mountain fog. But,
one way or another, the smoke of that ill-omened furnace
protected the first steps of my escape, and led me unobserved
to the canyon.
There, sure enough, I found a taciturn and sombre man beside
a pair of saddle-horses; and thenceforward, all night long,
we wandered in silence by the most occult and dangerous paths
among the mountains. A little before the dayspring we took
refuge in a wet and gusty cavern at the bottom of a gorge;
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