| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: awakening. The gaunt, careworn features and
dusty figures were made plain by this quaint
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light at the dawning, but it dressed the skin of
the men in corpselike hues and made the tangled
limbs appear pulseless and dead. The youth
started up with a little cry when his eyes first
swept over this motionless mass of men, thick-
spread upon the ground, pallid, and in strange
postures. His disordered mind interpreted the
hall of the forest as a charnel place. He believed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: existence, had been dead for many years, when it occurred to the
author that such a character might be made a powerful agent in
fictitious narrative. He, accordingly, sketched that of Elshie
of the Mucklestane-Moor. The story was intended to be longer,
and the catastrophe more artificially brought out; but a friendly
critic, to whose opinion I subjected the work in its progress,
was of opinion, that the idea of the Solitary was of a kind too
revolting, and more likely to disgust than to interest the
reader. As I had good right to consider my adviser as an
excellent judge of public opinion, I got off my subject by
hastening the story to an end, as fast as it was possible; and,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tial. Barney could scarce repress a smile.
"We will ride at once to the palace," he said. "At the
gate you may instruct one of your sergeants to telephone to
will act as our escort."
Butzow saluted and turned to his troopers, giving the
necessary commands that brought them about in the wake
of the pseudo-king. Once again Barney Custer, of Beatrice,
rode into Lustadt as king of Lutha. The few people upon
the streets turned to look at him as he passed, but there
was little demonstration of love or enthusiasm.
Leopold had awakened no emotions of this sort in the
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