| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: was the victim. He had me, and he threw himself over with me. Yet he did not
hate me. He loved me . . . as much as it is possible for a horse to love. I am
confounded. I cannot understand it any more than you can understand Dolly's
behavior yesterday."
"But horses go insane, Chris," Lute said. "You know that. It's merely
coincidence that two horses in two days should have spells under you."
"That's the only explanation," he answered, starting off with her. "But why am
I wanted urgently?"
"Planchette."
"Oh, I remember. It will be a new experience to me. Somehow I missed it when
it was all the rage long ago."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: subdued in manner, and the two painters, all three of them painfully
self-conscious and embarrassed. Monsieur de Reybert, a man of fifty,
with a crabbed expression of face, was also there, accompanied by old
Margueron and the notary of Beaumont, who held in his hand a bundle of
deeds and other papers.
When these various personages saw the count in evening dress, and
wearing his orders, Georges Marest had a slight sensation of colic,
Joseph Bridau quivered, but Mistigris, who was conscious of being in
his Sunday clothes, and had, moreover, nothing on his conscience,
remarked, in a sufficiently loud tone:--
"Well, he looks a great deal better like that."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close behind me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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System
Every night my prayers I say,
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