| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: dream, a drab setting, the cover of the book."
He thought.
"I could tell you all, tell you every little thing in the dream,
but as to what I did in the daytime--no. I could not tell--I do not
remember. My memory--my memory has gone. The business of life
slips from me--"
He leant forward, and pressed his hands upon his eyes. For a long
time he said nothing.
"And then?" said I.
"The war burst like a hurricane."
He stared before him at unspeakable things.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: to be turned.
It was on the hither slope of this neck of land that Curtis encamped
his army in the same formation that he had, after consultation
with the various generals, Good, and myself, determined that
they should occupy in the great pitched battle which now appeared
to be imminent.
Our force of sixty thousand men was, roughly speaking, divided
as follows. In the centre was a dense body of twenty thousand
foot-soldiers, armed with spears, swords, and hippopotamus-hide
shields, breast and back plates. {Endnote 20} These formed the
chest of the army, and were supported by five thousand foot,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: brow. The murmur of town life, the subdued rumble of wheels in the
two invisible streets to the right and left, came through the curve
of the sordid lane to his ears with a precious familiarity and an
appealing sweetness. He was human. But Chief Inspector Heat was
also a man, and he could not let such words pass.
"All this is good to frighten children with," he said. "I'll have
you yet."
It was very well said, without scorn, with an almost austere
quietness.
"Doubtless," was the answer; "but there's no time like the present,
believe me. For a man of real convictions this is a fine
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