| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: M'Brair: I can blink at them. But she's got to come to the
kirk, Montroymont.'
'Dinna speak of it,' says the laird. 'I can do nothing with
her.'
'Couldn't ye try the stick to her? it works wonders whiles,'
suggested Haddo. 'No? I'm wae to hear it. And I suppose ye
ken where you're going?'
'Fine!' said Montroymont. 'Fine do I ken where: bankrup'cy
and the Bass Rock!'
'Praise to my bones that I never married!' cried the curate.
'Well, it's a grievous thing to me to see an auld house dung
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: he asked, "that all these strangers are so quick afoot, and we must
drag about our fetter?"
"My dear boy," said his uncle, the catechist, "do not complain
about your fetter, for it is the only thing that makes life worth
living. None are happy, none are good, none are respectable, that
are not gyved like us. And I must tell you, besides, it is very
dangerous talk. If you grumble of your iron, you will have no
luck; if ever you take it off, you will be instantly smitten by a
thunderbolt."
"Are there no thunderbolts for these strangers?" asked Jack.
"Jupiter is longsuffering to the benighted," returned the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: forgotten all about the next day, when he must say good-by to
Blix.
It did not seem possible, it was not within the bounds of
possibility, that she was to go away--that they two were to be
separated. And for that matter, to-morrow was to-morrow. It was
twenty-four hours away. The present moment was sufficient.
The persistence with which they clung to the immediate moment,
their happiness in living only in the present, had brought about a
rather curious condition of things between them.
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