| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: got her on trail he'd take it off. Put her on the snowshoes to
break ahead of the dogs. Never knew it to fail, yet. But his
thought leaped ahead to the palace under the lazy Mediterranean
sky--and how would it be with Loraine then? No frost, no trail,
no famine now and again to cheer the monotony, and she getting
older and piling it on with every sunrise. While this girl Freda-
-he sighed his unconscious regret that he had missed being born
under the flag of the Turk, and came back to Alaska.
"Well?" Both hands of the clock pointed perpendicularly to
midnight, and it was high time he was getting down to the water-
hole.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: entry. I therfore went around to the front Door and went in, being
prepared, if discovered, to say that somone was in their bath-house
and they ought to know it. But I was not heard among their sounds
of revelry, and was able to proceed upstairs, which I did.
But not having asked which was Mr. Patten's room, I was at a loss
and almost discovered by a maid who was turning down the beds--much
to early, also, and not allowed in the best houses until
nine-thirty, since otherwise the rooms look undressed and informle.
I had but Time to duck into another chamber, and from there to a closet.
I REMAINED IN THAT CLOSET ALL NIGHT.
I will explain. No sooner had the maid gone than a Woman came into
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: the man, and wagged their tails, and licked his hand. Also he saw
one dog, that would neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in
the struggle for mastery.
Now and again men came, strangers, who talked excitedly,
wheedlingly, and in all kinds of fashions to the man in the red
sweater. And at such times that money passed between them the
strangers took one or more of the dogs away with them. Buck
wondered where they went, for they never came back; but the fear
of the future was strong upon him, and he was glad each time when
he was not selected.
Yet his time came, in the end, in the form of a little weazened
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