| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: herself into the nearest armchair she wept copiously at the
thought of her many injuries.
Uncertain whether to fly or to remain, Jimmy gazed at her
gloomily. "Well, I'M not laughing myself to death," he said.
For answer Zoie turned upon him vehemently. "I just wish I'd
never laid eyes on you, Jimmy," she cried.
Jimmy was wishing the very same thing.
"If I cared about you," she sobbed, "it wouldn't be so bad; but
to think of losing my Alfred for----" words failed her and she
trailed off weakly,--"for nothing!"
"Thanks," grunted Jimmy curtly. In spite of himself he was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: gathered at Springfield, though alert for every item of news, and
especially anxious for a sight of his inaugural address, seeing
him every day as usual, got not the slightest hint of what he was
doing.
Mr. Lincoln started on his journey to Washington on February 11,
1861 two days after Jefferson Davis had been elected President of
the Confederate States of America. He went on a special train,
accompanied by Mrs. Lincoln and their three children, his two
private secretaries, and about a dozen personal friends. Mr.
Seward had suggested that because of the unsettled condition of
public affairs it would be better for the President-elect to come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: be something in it? I am not so sure. Science may be too dogmatic in its
denial of the unseen. The forces of the unseen, of the spirit, may well be too
subtle, too sublimated, for science to lay hold of, and recognize, and
formulate. Don't you see, Chris, that there is rationality in the very doubt?
It may be a very small doubt--oh, so small; but I love you too much to run
even that slight risk. Besides, I am a woman, and that should in itself fully
account for my predisposition toward superstition.
"Yes, yes, I know, call it unreality. But I've heard you paradoxing upon the
reality of the unreal--the reality of delusion to the mind that is sick. And
so with me, if you will; it is delusion and unreal, but to me, constituted as
I am, it is very real--is real as a nightmare is real, in the throes of it,
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