| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: present day.
But though thus falling into decline, Little Britain still bears
traces of its former splendor. There are several houses ready
to tumble down, the fronts of which are magnificently enriched
with old oaken carvings of hideous faces, unknown birds,
beasts, and fishes; and fruits and flowers which it would
perplex a naturalist to classify. There are also, in Aldersgate
Street, certain remains of what were once spacious and lordly
family mansions, but which have in latter days been subdivided
into several tenements. Here may often be found the family of
a petty tradesman, with its trumpery furniture, burrowing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: Gideon knew his room, he knew where the matches stood on the end
of the chimney-piece; and he advanced boldly, and in so doing
dashed himself against a heavy body; where (slightly altering the
expressions of the song) no heavy body should have been. There
had been nothing there when Gideon went out; he had locked the
door behind him, he had found it locked on his return, no one
could have entered, the furniture could not have changed its own
position. And yet undeniably there was a something there. He
thrust out his hands in the darkness. Yes, there was something,
something large, something smooth, something cold.
'Heaven forgive me!' said Gideon, 'it feels like a piano.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: and fringe; they dressed their horses in silvered trappings. But
the riders now trampling into the driveway were uncouth. lean,
savage. They were guerrillas, a band of the raiders who had been
harassing the border since the beginning of the revolution. A
second glimpse assured Madeline that they were not all Mexicans.
The presence of outlaws in that band brought home to Madeline her
real danger. She remembered what Stillwell had told her about
recent outlaw raids along the Rio Grande. These flying bands,
operating under the excitement of the revolution, appeared here
and there, everywhere, in remote places, and were gone as quickly
as they came. Mostly they wanted money and arms, but they would
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