| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: nervously in bunches. The chieftain had seen it all before--scores of
times. He could have pictured it exactly in advance, from the Blue-
and-Gray speech down to the smallest rosebud. Yet his kindly smile of
interest greeted Elmville's display as if it had been the only and
original.
In the upper rotunda of the Palace Hotel the town's most illustrious
were assembled for the honour of being presented to the distinguished
guests previous to the expected address. Outside, Elmville's
inglorious but patriotic masses filled the streets.
Here, in the hotel General Deffenbaugh was holding in reserve
Elmville's trump card. Elmville knew; for the trump was a fixed one,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: take, and I realized it in the instant that I threw the
gun up from my hip and pulled the trigger. There was
no time to aim. Juag was upon the very brink of the
chasm. His relentless foe was pushing him hard, beat-
ing at him furiously with the heavy knife.
And then the revolver spoke--loud and sharp. The
giant threw his hands above his head, whirled about
like a huge top, and lunged forward over the precipice.
And Juag?
He cast a single affrighted glance in my direction--
never before, of course, had he heard the report of a
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: that you discovered what he was.
By playing on the oaf's conceit, and standing closely over
him, we got a path made round the corner of the dump to our
door, so that we could come and go with decent ease; and he
even enjoyed the work, for in that there were boulders to be
plucked up bodily, bushes to be uprooted, and other occasions
for athletic display: but cutting wood was a different
matter. Anybody could cut wood; and, besides, my wife was
tired of supervising him, and had other things to attend to.
And, in short, days went by, and Irvine came daily, and
talked and lounged and spat; but the firewood remained intact
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