| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: monkish underlings who had a cell there, that the islet owes its
holy and beautiful name, the House of God.
Among these old wives' stories there was one which I was inclined
to hear with more credulity. As I was told, in that tempest which
scattered the ships of the Invincible Armada over all the north and
west of Scotland, one great vessel came ashore on Aros, and before
the eyes of some solitary people on a hill-top, went down in a
moment with all hands, her colours flying even as she sank. There
was some likelihood in this tale; for another of that fleet lay
sunk on the north side, twenty miles from Grisapol. It was told, I
thought, with more detail and gravity than its companion stories,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Beneath the thousands of padded feet the forest gave forth no
greater sound than might have been produced by the increased
soughing of a stronger breeze through the leafy branches of
the trees.
Korak and the two kings were in the lead. Close beside the
village they halted until the stragglers had closed up. Now utter
silence reigned. Korak, creeping stealthily, entered the tree
that overhung the palisade. He glanced behind him. The pack were
close upon his heels. The time had come. He had warned them
continuously during the long march that no harm must befall
the white she who lay a prisoner within the village. All others
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: point of view, so there is no use in discussing it. Now please
forget all about it, and consider me at your service concerning
this . . . this project of yours. I know more about cocoanut-
planting than you do. You speak like a capitalist. I don't know
how much money you have, but I don't fancy you are rolling in
wealth, as you Americans say. But I do know what it costs to clear
land. Suppose the government sells you Pari-Sulay at a pound an
acre; clearing will cost you at least four pounds more; that is,
five pounds for four hundred acres, or, say, ten thousand dollars.
Have you that much?"
She was keenly interested, and he could see that the previous clash
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