| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: of a place propitious for him and for his disciples. At last he
perceived a new city, constructed from the ruins of Maguelonne, of
Lattes, and of Substantion. He contemplated long its site, its
aspect, its neighbourhood, and resolved to establish on this hill of
Montpellier a temple for himself and his priests. All smiled on his
desires. By the genius of the soil, by the character of the
inhabitants, no town is more fit for the culture of letters, and
above all of medicine. What site is more delicious and more lovely?
A heaven pure and smiling; a city built with magnificence; men born
for all the labours of the intellect. All around vast horizons and
enchanting sites--meadows, vines, olives, green champaigns;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: "I mean that all your time's took up a-carryin' and a-fetchin'
for that girl what calls you 'Muvver Jim.' "
"What have yer got to say about her?" Jim eyed him with a
threatening look.
"I got a-plenty," said Barker, as he turned to snap his whip at
the small boys who had stolen into the back lot to peek under the
rear edge of the "big top." "She's been about as much good as a
sick cat since she come back. You saw her act last night."
"Yes," answered Jim, doggedly.
"Wasn't it punk? She didn't show at ALL this afternoon--said she
was sick. And me with all them people inside what knowed her,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: climate, the most beautiful on earth; surrounded by a foreign race
that all travellers have agreed to be the most engaging; and taking
a double interest in two foreign arts.
We came forth again at last, in a cloudy moonlight, on the forest
lawn which is the street of Tautira. The Pacific roared outside
upon the reef. Here and there one of the scattered palm-built
lodges shone out under the shadow of the wood, the lamplight
bursting through the crannies of the wall. We went homeward
slowly, Ori a Ori carrying behind us the lantern and the chairs,
properties with which we had just been enacting our part of the
distinguished visitor. It was one of those moments in which minds
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