| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "There is a likeness," mused the Frau Doktor. "Quite. What a manner she
has. Such reserve, such a tender way with the child."
"Pity she has the child to attend to," exclaimed the student from Bonn. He
had hitherto relied upon three scars and a ribbon to produce an effect, but
the sister of a Baroness demanded more than these.
Absorbing days followed. Had she been one whit less beautifully born we
could not have endured the continual conversation about her, the songs in
her praise, the detailed account of her movements. But she graciously
suffered our worship and we were more than content.
The poet she took into her confidence. He carried her books when we went
walking, he jumped the afflicted one on his knee--poetic licence, this--and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: chieftain's men to spy him.
Soon four strong men ran forth from the center wigwam toward
the hillock, where sat the man with the long bow.
"He is the avenger come to shoot the red eagle," cried the
runners to each other as they bent forward swinging their elbows
together.
They reached the side of the stranger, but he did not heed
them. Proud and silent he gazed upon the cone-shaped wigwams
beneath him. Spreading a handsomely decorated buffalo robe before
the man, two of the warriors lifted him by each shoulder and placed
him gently on it. Then the four men took, each, a corner of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: into the courtroom. Presently the jury filed in and took their
seats. The foreman handed the clerk a bit of paper. Even
before it was read Billy knew that he had been found guilty.
He did not care any longer, so he told himself. He hoped that
the judge would send him to the gallows. There was nothing
more in life for him now anyway. He wanted to die. But
instead he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary
at Joliet.
This was infinitely worse than death. Billy Byrne was
appalled at the thought of remaining for life within the grim
stone walls of a prison. Once more there swept over him all
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