| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: been working in the fields all day. Anton, he was a city man,
and he used to get discouraged. But I couldn't feel so tired
that I wouldn't fret about these trees when there was a dry time.
They were on my mind like children. Many a night after he was asleep
I've got up and come out and carried water to the poor things.
And now, you see, we have the good of them. My man worked in
the orange groves in Florida, and he knows all about grafting.
There ain't one of our neighbours has an orchard that bears like ours.'
In the middle of the orchard we came upon a grape arbour,
with seats built along the sides and a warped plank table.
The three children were waiting for us there. They looked up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: steps.
He came up, sat down, and blew out his cheeks, looking
inexpressibly fatuous. But I didn't want to laugh any more. And
what on earth, I asked myself, have we been laughing at in this
uncontrollable fashion. I felt suddenly depressed.
Oh, yes. Freya had started it. The girl's overwrought, I thought.
And really one couldn't wonder at it.
I had no answer to old Nelson's question, but he was too aggrieved
at Jasper's visit to think of anything else. He as good as asked
me whether I wouldn't undertake to hint to Jasper that he was not
wanted at the Seven Isles group. I declared that it was not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active
magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which
were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the
cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too
poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences,
silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and
plenty.
The entertainment of dining at Rosings was repeated about twice
a week; and, allowing for the loss of Sir William, and there being
only one card-table in the evening, every such entertainment was
the counterpart of the first. Their other engagements were few,
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