| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: far off in the centuries. - Ever your faithful
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
WEDNESDAY. - A moment at last. These last few days have been as
jolly as days could be, and by good fortune I leave to-morrow for
Swanston, so that I shall not feel the whole fall back to habitual
self. The pride of life could scarce go further. To live in
splendid clothes, velvet and gold and fur, upon principally
champagne and lobster salad, with a company of people nearly all of
whom are exceptionally good talkers; when your days began about
eleven and ended about four - I have lost that sentence; I give it
up; it is very admirable sport, any way. Then both my afternoons
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tain unusual orders were issued, and that that same
night the ten companies rode south toward Essex without
other halt than for necessary food and water for man and
beast.
When the body of Joan de Tany rode forth from her
father's castle to the church at Colchester, and again as
it was brought back to its final resting place in the
castle's crypt, a thousand strange and silent knights,
black draped, upon horses trapped in black, rode slowly
behind the bier.
Silently they had come in the night preceding the fun-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: not unfrequently felt considerable anxiety, of which this
day's experience will afford an example.
[Thursday, 1st June]
This morning, at a quarter-past eight, the artificers
were landed as usual, and, after three hours and three-
quarters' work, five stones were laid, the greater part of
this tide having been taken up in completing the boring and
trenailing of the stones formerly laid. At noon the writer,
with the seamen and artificers, proceeded to the tender,
leaving on the beacon the joiners, and several of those who
were troubled with sea-sickness - among whom was Mr. Logan,
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