| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: Through the dim rose light he could barely perceive his young
wife. She was lying white and apparently lifeless on her
pillows. He moved cautiously toward the bed, but Aggie raised a
warning finger. Afraid to speak, he grasped Aggie's hand and
searched her face for reassurance; she nodded toward Zoie, whose
eyes were closed. He tiptoed to the bedside, sank on his knees
and reverently kissed the small hand that hung limply across the
side of the bed.
To Alfred's intense surprise, his lips had barely touched Zoie's
fingertips when he felt his head seized in a frantic embrace.
"Alfred, Alfred!" cried Zoie in delight; then she smothered his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: him up followers, predicted that he could not make an orderly
government or support himself long in sole power "without very
energetic foreign help." Of what help was the consul thinking?
There was no helper in the field but Germany. On the 15th he had
an interview with the victor; told him that Tamasese's was the only
government recognised by Germany, and that he must continue to
recognise it till he received "other instructions from his
government, whom he was now advising of the late events"; refused,
accordingly, to withdraw the guard from the isthmus; and desired
Mataafa, "until the arrival of these fresh instructions," to
refrain from an attack on Mulinuu. One thing of two: either this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ing solitude through which he moved; but there re-
mained with him still the hallucination that he moved
alone through a strange, new world peopled by invisible
and unfamiliar forms--menacing shapes which lurked in
waiting behind each tree and shrub.
He ceased his whistling and went warily upon the
balls of his feet, lest he unnecessarily call attention to
his presence. If the truth were to be told it would chron-
icle the fact that a very nervous and frightened burglar
sneaked along the quiet and peaceful country road out-
side of Oakdale. A lonesome burglar, this, who so craved
The Oakdale Affair |
