| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Lochaber-axes, and two-handed swords--Stand fast, dragoons, on
the left flank!--where was I?--Ay, and, Ranald, if ye be minded
to retreat, leave some lighted matches burning on the branches of
the trees--it shows as if they were lined with shot--But I forget
--ye have no match-locks nor habergeons--only bows and arrows
--bows and arrows! ha! ha! ha!"
Here the Captain sunk back in an exhausted condition, altogether
unable to resist the sense of the ludicrous which, as a modern
man-at-arms, he connected with the idea of these ancient weapons
of war. It was a long time ere he recovered his senses; and, in
the meantime, we leave him in the care of the Daughters of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: was off, and I crumb up inside the rock, and I waited a turruble long
spell till the sun travelled clean around the canyon. Mrs. Bear come home
though, a big cinnamon; and I raised my gun, but laid it down to see what
she'd do. She scrapes around and snuffs, and the cubs start whining, and
she talks back to 'em. Next she sits up awful big, and lifts up a cub and
holds it to her close with both her paws, same as a person. And she
rubbed her ear agin the cub, and the cub sort o' nipped her, and she
cuffed the cub, and the other cub came toddlin', and away they starts
rolling all three of 'em! I watched that for a long while. That big thing
just nursed and played with them little cubs, beatin' em for a change
onced in a while, and talkin', and onced in a while she'd sit up solemn
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was
all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no
idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns,
were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded,
after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness,
that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room,
humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling
that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee.
"Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the
utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman
was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind
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