| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: and he had put one of them in place of t'other right under
our noses.
"We felt pretty cheap. But the thing to do, straight off,
was to make a plan; and we done it. We would do up the
paper again, just as it was, and slip in, very elaborate
and soft, and lay it on the bunk again, and let on WE
didn't know about any trick, and hadn't any idea he was
a-laughing at us behind them bogus snores of his'n; and we
would stick by him, and the first night we was ashore we
would get him drunk and search him, and get the di'monds;
and DO for him, too, if it warn't too risky. If we got
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: wailing for the dead. He remembered Nina's unusual absence, and
maddened by his apprehensions as to her safety, he pushed blindly
and violently forward, the crowd falling back with cries of
surprise and pain before his frantic advance.
On the point of land in a little clear space lay the body of the
stranger just hauled out from amongst the logs. On one side
stood Babalatchi, his chin resting on the head of his staff and
his one eye gazing steadily at the shapeless mass of broken
limbs, torn flesh, and bloodstained rags. As Almayer burst
through the ring of horrified spectators, Mrs. Almayer threw her
own head-veil over the upturned face of the drowned man, and,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: seemed a complicated thing. He wondered how
they could remember its formula in the midst of
confusion.
The guns squatted in a row like savage chiefs.
They argued with abrupt violence. It was a
grim pow-wow. Their busy servants ran hither
and thither.
A small procession of wounded men were go-
ing drearily toward the rear. It was a flow of
blood from the torn body of the brigade.
To the right and to the left were the dark
The Red Badge of Courage |
