| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: of heavy drops that stung like hail. There were low groans of
indignation. A man sighed. Another emitted a spasmodic laugh
through his chattering teeth. No one moved away. The little
kassab wiped his face and went on in his cracked voice, to the
accompaniment of the swishing sounds made by the seas that swept
regularly astern along the ship's side.
"Have you heard him shout at the wind--louder than the wind? I
have heard, being far forward. And before, too, in the many years
I served this white man I have heard him often cry magic words
that make all safe. Ya-wa! This is truth. Ask Wasub who is a
Haji, even as I am."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: the other breaker, Job, they called him, went on training me;
he was steady and thoughtful, and I soon learned what he wanted."
08 Ginger's Story Continued
The next time that Ginger and I were together in the paddock she told me
about her first place.
"After my breaking in," she said, "I was bought by a dealer
to match another chestnut horse. For some weeks he drove us together,
and then we were sold to a fashionable gentleman, and were sent up to London.
I had been driven with a check-rein by the dealer, and I hated it worse
than anything else; but in this place we were reined far tighter,
the coachman and his master thinking we looked more stylish so.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: And chastened limbs ride round Athena's shrine
And mirror her divine economies,
And balanced symmetry of what in man
Would else wage ceaseless warfare, - this at least within the span
Between our mother's kisses and the grave
Might so inform our lives, that we could win
Such mighty empires that from her cave
Temptation would grow hoarse, and pallid Sin
Would walk ashamed of his adulteries,
And Passion creep from out the House of Lust with startled eyes.
To make the body and the spirit one
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