| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: house and gave the culprit a good shaking: an episode in the midst
of battle as incongruous as the grazing cow. But his sillier
comrades followed his example; a harmless volley warned the boats
what they might expect; and they drew back and passed outside the
reef for the passage of the Fuisa. Here they came under the fire
of the right wing of the Mataafas on the river-bank. The beach,
raked east and west, appeared to them no place to land on. And
they hung off in the deep water of the lagoon inside the barrier
reef, feebly fusillading the pilot house.
Between four and five, the Fabeata regiment (or folk of that
village) on the Mataafa left, which had been under arms all day,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: We got very friendly over this game, but I told Terry we'd be
sorry if we didn't get off while we could, and then we begged for knives.
It was easy to show what we wanted to do, and they each proudly produced
a sort of strong clasp-knife from their pockets.
"Yes," we said eagerly, "that's it! Please--" We had learned
quite a bit of their language, you see. And we just begged for
those knives, but they would not give them to us. If we came a
step too near they backed off, standing light and eager for flight.
"It's no sort of use," I said. "Come on--let's get a sharp stone
or something--we must get this thing off."
So we hunted about and found what edged fragments we could, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: I hauled in nearer the shore that I might talk to them, and I found
they ran along the shore by me a good way. I observed they had no
weapons in their hand, except one, who had a long slender stick,
which Xury said was a lance, and that they could throw them a great
way with good aim; so I kept at a distance, but talked with them by
signs as well as I could; and particularly made signs for something
to eat: they beckoned to me to stop my boat, and they would fetch
me some meat. Upon this I lowered the top of my sail and lay by,
and two of them ran up into the country, and in less than half-an-
hour came back, and brought with them two pieces of dried flesh and
some corn, such as is the produce of their country; but we neither
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