| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: That dwell between the seas and Arden Wood,
Where Mosel streams and Rhene the meadows wear,
A battel soil for grain, for pasture good,
Their islanders with them, who oft repair
Their earthen bulwarks 'gainst the ocean flood,
The flood, elsewhere that ships and barks devours,
But there drowns cities, countries, towns and towers;
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Both in one troop, and but a thousand all,
Under another Robert fierce they run.
Then the English squadron, soldiers stout and tall,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: plowed through his scalp down to the bone. When it had been
dressed, Mercedes collapsed. Gale laid her with the three in a row
and covered them with blankets and the tarpaulin.
Then Yaqui submitted to examination. A bullet had gone through
the Indian's shoulder. To Gale it appeared serious. Yaqui said it
was a flea bite. But he allowed
Gale to bandage it, and obeyed when he was told to lie quiet in
his blanket beside the fire.
Gale stood guard. He seemed still calm, and wondered at what he
considered a strange absence of poignant feeling. If he had felt
weariness it was now gone. He coaxed the fire with as little wood
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: Even the writer of prose, who in his less noble and more toilsome
task should be a man with the steeled heart, is worthy of a
place, providing he looks on with undimmed eyes and keeps
laughter out of his voice, let who will laugh or cry. Yes! Even
he, the prose artist of fiction, which after all is but truth
often dragged out of a well and clothed in the painted robe of
imaged phrases--even he has his place amongst kings, demagogues,
priests, charlatans, dukes, giraffes, Cabinet Ministers, Fabians,
bricklayers, apostles, ants, scientists, Kaffirs, soldiers,
sailors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes and constellations
of a universe whose amazing spectacle is a moral end in itself.
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