| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: it was not hard for him to find the man he sought, for every one
knew of Sebastian the Goldsmith. He was an old man, with a great
white beard and a forehead like the dome of a temple. He looked
at Beppo from head to foot with eyes as bright as those of a
snake; then he took the ring and the letter. As soon as he saw
the ring he raised it to his lips and kissed it; then he kissed
the letter also; then he opened it and read it.
He turned to Beppo and bowed very low. "My lord," said he, "I
will do as I am commanded. Will you be pleased to follow me?"
He led the way into an inner room. There were soft rugs upon the
floor, and around the walls were tapestries. There were couches
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: Finding that he could make no headway against her alone, he called
upon the Union to assist him, claiming that she was employing
non-union labor, and had thus been able to cut down the
discharging rates to starvation prices.
A meeting was accordingly called by the executive committee of the
Knights, and a resolution passed condemning certain persons in the
village of Rockville as traitors to the cause of the workingman.
Only one copy of this edict was issued and mailed. This found its
way into Tom Grogan's letter-box. Five minutes after she had
broken the seal, her men discovered the document pasted upside
down on her stable door.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: groaning of the horns, the apparition stood swaying for a moment before
he perceived the man in the duster.
"Wha's matter?" he inquired calmly. "Did we run outa gas?"
"Look!"
Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel--he stared
at it for a moment, and then looked upward as though he suspected that
it had dropped from the sky.
"It came off," some one explained.
He nodded.
"At first I din' notice we'd stopped."
A pause. Then, taking a long breath and straightening his shoulders,
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