| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: the Earl's reasons for not holding it: which were that he had
arranged a consultation for that morning in regard to the troops
for the Dauphin, to which meeting he had summoned a number of his
own more important dependent nobles, that the King himself needed
repose and the hour or so of rest that his barber- surgeon had
ordered him to take after his mid-day meal; that Father Thomas
had laid upon Myles a petty penance--that for the first three
days of his knighthood he should eat his meals without meat and
in his own apartment--and various other reasons equally good and
sufficient. So the King was satisfied, and the feast was
dispensed with.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: was thrown high above it, rising and falling, and blown into
fantastic shapes. The speed of its course was like a
mountain torrent. Here and there a few treetops were
discovered and then whelmed again; and for one second, the
bough of a dead pine beckoned out of the spray like the arm
of a drowning man. But still the imagination was
dissatisfied, still the ear waited for something more. Had
this indeed been water (as it seemed so, to the eye), with
what a plunge of reverberating thunder would it have rolled
upon its course, disembowelling mountains and deracinating
pines! And yet water it was, and sea-water at that - true
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: have a return of those sensations - only ten times worse. The drink
you've had will see to that.... How do you suppose it will all end?"
"If I knew, I wouldn't be asking you questions."
Haunte laughed loudly. "Sullenbode."
"You mean it will end in my seeking Sullenbode?"
"But what will come of it, Maskull? What will she give you? Sweet,
fainting, white-armed, feminine voluptuousness?"
Maskull coolly drank another cup. "And why should she give all that
to a passerby?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, she hasn't it to give. No, what she will
give you, and what you'll accept from her, because you can't help it,
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