| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: had so much fun. We knew how to play."
Nils dropped his elbows on the table and looked steadily
across at her. "I've played with lots of girls since, but I
haven't found one who was such good fun."
Clara laughed. The late afternoon sun was shining full in her
face, and deep in the back of her eyes there shone something fiery,
like the yellow drops of Tokai in the brown glass bottle. "Can you
still play, or are you only pretending?"
"I can play better than I used to, and harder."
"Don't you ever work, then?" She had not intended to say it.
It slipped out because she was confused enough to say just the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: four-in-hand."
From Garberville, where we ate eel to repletion and got acquainted
with the aborigines, we drove down the Eel River Valley for two
days through the most unthinkably glorious body of redwood timber
to be seen anywhere in California. From Dyerville on to Eureka,
we caught glimpses of railroad construction and of great concrete
bridges in the course of building, which advertised that at least
Humboldt County was going to be linked to the rest of the world.
We still consider our trip is just begun. As soon as this is
mailed from Eureka, it's heigh ho! for the horses and pull on. We
shall continue up the coast, turn in for Hoopa Reservation and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the shadow of the world that hangs forever above their
country.
A little in advance of the others was a bearded fel-
low tricked out in many ornaments. I didn't need to
ask to know that he was the chieftain--doubtless Goork,
father of Kolk. Now to him I addressed myself.
"I am David," I said, "Emperor of the Federated
Kingdoms of Pellucidar. Doubtless you have heard of
me?"
He nodded his head affirmatively.
"I come from Sari," I continued, 'where I just met
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