| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: quarrel of any friend, however distant, was extremely wishful to
avoid them.
Chance served us very well; for it was a household of Maclarens
that we found, where Alan was not only welcome for his name's
sake but known by reputation. Here then I was got to bed without
delay, and a doctor fetched, who found me in a sorry plight. But
whether because he was a very good doctor, or I a very young,
strong man, I lay bedridden for no more than a week, and before a
month I was able to take the road again with a good heart.
All this time Alan would not leave me though I often pressed him,
and indeed his foolhardiness in staying was a common subject of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: were trying to get the shore end on shore, but had failed and
apparently had stuck on shore, and the waves were getting up. We
had anchored in the right place and next morning we hoped the shore
end would be laid, so we had only to go back. It was of course
still colder and quite night. I went to bed and hoped to sleep,
but, alas, the rheumatism got into the joints and caused me
terrible pain so that I could not sleep. I bore it as long as I
could in order to disturb no one, for all were tired; but at last I
could bear it no longer and managed to wake the steward and got a
mustard poultice which took the pain from the shoulder; but then
the elbow got very bad, and I had to call the second steward and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: "Oh, say, she don't know what the do-funny is. We can't start
without it, sure. Pete went back to get it."
"Oh, you're joking me, there's no such thing."
"Well, aren't we WAITING for it?"
"Oh, look, look," cried some women in a covered rig. "See, they
are starting already 'way over there."
In fact, it did appear as if the far extremity of the line was in
motion. Dust rose in the air above it.
"They ARE starting. Why don't we start?"
"No, they've stopped. False alarm."
"They've not, either. Why don't we move?"
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