| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: And when He had passed through the hall of chalcedony and the hall
of jasper, and reached the long hall of feasting, He saw lying on a
couch of sea-purple one whose hair was crowned with red roses and
whose lips were red with wine.
And He went behind him and touched him on the shoulder and said to
him, 'Why do you live like this?'
And the young man turned round and recognised Him, and made answer
and said, 'But I was a leper once, and you healed me. How else
should I live?'
And He passed out of the house and went again into the street.
And after a little while He saw one whose face and raiment were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: from farther up the bluff. "Go slow. You-all air gittin'
foolish at the end of a long chase."
"Thet's right, Colonel. Hold 'em back. There's nothin' shorer
than somebody'll be stoppin' lead pretty quick. He'll be
huntin' us soon!"
"Let's surround this corner an' starve him out."
"Fire the brake."
How clearly all this talk pierced Duane's ears! In it he seemed
to hear his doom. This, then, was the end he had always
expected, which had been close to him before, yet never like
now.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: on the South Seas: THE big book on the South Seas it ought to be,
and shall. And besides, I have some verses in the press, which,
however, I hesitate to publish. For I am no judge of my own verse;
self-deception is there so facile. All this and the cares of an
impending settlement in Samoa keep me very busy, and a cold (as
usual) keeps me in bed.
Alas, I shall not have the pleasure to see you yet awhile, if ever.
You must be content to take me as a wandering voice, and in the
form of occasional letters from recondite islands; and address me,
if you will be good enough to write, to Apia, Samoa. My stepson,
Mr. Osbourne, goes home meanwhile to arrange some affairs; it is
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