| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: won fame. How they stand now like Giants, or Titans, or
Immortals come down from Olympus, though many a winter has
worn them, and many a fearful storm. What must they have
been when they sailed from Iolcos, in the bloom of their
youth, long ago?'
Then they went out to the garden; and the merchant princes
said, 'Heroes, run races with us. Let us see whose feet are
nimblest.'
'We cannot race against you, for our limbs are stiff from
sea; and we have lost our two swift comrades, the sons of the
north wind. But do not think us cowards: if you wish to try
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: sleep and sunshine and dust, and the wind in the pine trees,
all day long.
A little before stage time, that castle of indolence awoke.
The ostler threw his straw away and set to his preparations.
Mr. Jennings rubbed his eyes; happy Mr. Jennings, the
something he had been waiting for all day about to happen at
last! The boarders gathered in the verandah, silently giving
ear, and gazing down the road with shaded eyes. And as yet
there was no sign for the senses, not a sound, not a tremor
of the mountain road. The birds, to whom the secret of the
hooting cuckoo is unknown, must have set down to instinct
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: falling through ground-glass. The air was moist and close,
and heavy with the smell of verdure and wet earth.
A tall bank of palms, with ferns sprawling at their base,
reared itself directly in front of him. The floor was of mosaic,
and he saw now that there were rugs upon it, and that there
were chairs and sofas, and other signs of habitation.
It was, indeed, only half a greenhouse, for the lower part
of it was in rosewood panels, with floral paintings on them,
like a room.
Moving to one side of the barrier of palms, he discovered,
to his great surprise, the figure of Michael, sitting propped
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