| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: cannot assign the day.
AUGUST. The affairs of France will seem to suffer no change for a
while under the Duke of Burgundy's administration; but the genius
that animated the whole machine being gone, will be the cause of
mighty turns and revolutions in the following year. The new king
makes yet little change either in the army or the Ministry, but the
libels against his grandfather, that fly about his very Court, give
him uneasiness.
I see an express in mighty haste, with joy and wonder in his looks,
arriving by break of day on the 26th of this month, having
travelled in three days a prodigious journey by land and sea. In
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: leave him time to forget the Gladstone bag.
At length, at the head of some stairs on the Embankment, he
hailed; the cab was stopped; and he alighted - with how glad
a heart! He thrust his hand into his pocket. All was now
over; he had saved his life; nor that alone, but he had
engineered a striking act of dynamite; for what could be more
pictorial, what more effective, than the explosion of a
hansom cab, as it sped rapidly along the streets of London.
He felt in one pocket; then in another. The most crushing
seizure of despair descended on his soul; and struck into
abject dumbness, he stared upon the driver. He had not one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: stepping to him, told him it was too late to cry for help, he
should call upon God to forgive his villainy, and with that word
knocked him down with the stock of his musket, so that he never
spoke more; there were three more in the company, and one of them
was slightly wounded. By this time I was come; and when they saw
their danger, and that it was in vain to resist, they begged for
mercy. The captain told them he would spare their lives if they
would give him an assurance of their abhorrence of the treachery
they had been guilty of, and would swear to be faithful to him in
recovering the ship, and afterwards in carrying her back to
Jamaica, from whence they came. They gave him all the
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