| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: the paint-pot. The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great
white letters that could be read thirty yards away. They ran thus:
THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
It was very neatly written, and except that "friend" was written "freind"
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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: and petrifactions were retailed. It was a pure little isle
of touristry among these solitary hills.
The proprietor was a brave old white-faced Swede. He had
wandered this way, Heaven knows how, and taken up his acres -
I forget how many years ago - all alone, bent double with
sciatica, and with six bits in his pocket and an axe upon his
shoulder. Long, useless years of seafaring had thus
discharged him at the end, penniless and sick. Without doubt
he had tried his luck at the diggings, and got no good from
that; without doubt he had loved the bottle, and lived the
life of Jack ashore. But at the end of these adventures,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "What about word to Dick, David?" he inquired awkwardly, "I've
called up Bassett, but he's away. And I don't know that Dick ought
to come back anyhow. If the police are on the job at all they'll
be on the lookout now. They'll know he may try to come."
David looked away. Just how much he wanted Dick, to tide him over
these bad hours, only David knew. But he could not have him. He
stared at the glass of hot milk.
"I guess I can fight this out alone, Harrison," he said. "And Lucy
will understand."
He did not sleep much that night. Once or twice he got up and
tip-toed across the hall into Lucy's room and looked at her. She
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