| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: opened up. McCall dumped a slow teaser down
the line, a hit that would easily have scored Rube,
but he ran a little way, then stopped, tried to get
back, and was easily touched out. Ashwell's hard
chance gave the Bison's shortstop an error, and
Stringer came up with two men on bases. Stringer
hit a foul over the right-field fence and the crowd
howled. Then he hit a hard long drive straight
into the centerfielder's hands.
``Con, I don't know what to think, but ding me
if we ain't hittin' the ball,'' said Spears. Then
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: illness, in short, you are a part of my household. Poor Maximilien! I
will avenge him; I take upon myself to kill the man who killed him.
The whole future of the house of Herouville is now in your hands. You
alone can know if there is in that poor abortion the stuff that can
breed a Herouville. You hear me. What think you?"
"His life on the seashore has been so chaste and so pure that nature
is sounder in him than it would have been had he lived in your world.
But so delicate a body is the very humble servant of the soul.
Monseigneur Etienne must himself choose his wife; all things in him
must be the work of nature and not of your will. He will love
artlessly, and will accomplish by his heart's desire that which you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: tobacco-pipe violently on the table, where it was smashed in
pieces. 'Out of my house with ye, or I'll call for the
dragoons.'
'The speerit of the Lord is upon me,' said M'Brair with
solemn ecstasy. 'I sist you to compear before the Great
White Throne, and I warn you the summons shall be bloody and
sudden.'
And at this, with more agility than could have been expected,
he got clear of the room and slammed the door behind him in
the face of the pursuing curate. The next Lord's day the
curate was ill, and the kirk closed, but for all his ill
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