| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: Well, it 'most took my breath.
"My land! Why, Tom, WE'LL get the di'monds!"
"You bet. Some day there'll be a big reward offered
for them--a thousand dollars, sure. That's our money!
Now we'll trot in and see the folks. And mind you we
don't know anything about any murder, or any di'monds,
or any thieves--don't you forget that."
I had to sigh a little over the way he had got it fixed.
I'd 'a' SOLD them di'monds--yes, sir--for twelve
thousand dollars; but I didn't say anything. It wouldn't
done any good. I says:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: mono-rail train standing in the track on its safety feet. It was
a remarkably sumptuous train, the Last Word Trans-Continental
Express, and the passengers were all playing cards or sleeping or
preparing a picnic meal on a grassy slope near at hand. They had
been there six days....
At one point ten dark-complexioned men were hanging in a string
from the trees along the roadside. Bert wondered why....
At one peaceful-looking village where they stopped off to get
Bert's tyre mended and found beer and biscuits, they were
approached by an extremely dirty little boy without boots, who
spoke as follows:--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: Bazin came out after a while; she was tired with her day's work, I
suppose; and she nestled up to her husband and laid her head upon
his breast. He had his arm about her, and kept gently patting her
on the shoulder. I think Bazin was right, and he was really
married. Of how few people can the same be said!
Little did the Bazins know how much they served us. We were
charged for candles, for food and drink, and for the beds we slept
in. But there was nothing in the bill for the husband's pleasant
talk; nor for the pretty spectacle of their married life. And
there was yet another item unchanged. For these people's
politeness really set us up again in our own esteem. We had a
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