| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: dark cloaks walked ahead of a tall man in a top hat. I slowed
down, not wishing to pass them by, the more so that the door of the
house was only a few yards distant. But to my intense surprise
those people stopped at it and the man in the top hat, producing a
latchkey, let his two companions through, followed them, and with a
heavy slam cut himself off from my astonished self and the rest of
mankind.
In the stupid way people have I stood and meditated on the sight,
before it occurred to me that this was the most useless thing to
do. After waiting a little longer to let the others get away from
the hall I entered in my turn. The small gas-jet seemed not to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: X
Then loud he cries, "O what a dust ariseth!
O how it shines with shields and targets clear!
Up, up, to arms, for valiant heart despiseth
The threatened storm of death and danger near.
Behold your foes;" then further thus deviseth,
"Haste, haste, for vain delay increaseth fear,
These horrid clouds of dust that yonder fly,
Your coming foes does hide, and hide the sky."
XI
The tender children, and the fathers old,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: Europe, very frailly built, with a singular tall forehead, and a
secret eye. Several bundles and a small valise were on the floor;
and to judge by the smallness of this luggage, and by the condition
of the Master's boots, grossly patched by some unscrupulous country
cobbler, evil had not prospered.
He rose upon my entrance; our eyes crossed; and I know not why it
should have been, but my courage rose like a lark on a May morning.
"Ha!" said I, "is this you?" - and I was pleased with the unconcern
of my own voice.
"It is even myself, worthy Mackellar," says the Master.
"This time you have brought the black dog visibly upon your back,"
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