| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: Alice couldn't help smiling as she took out her memorandum-
book, and worked the sum for him:
365
1
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364
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Humpty Dumpty took the book, and looked at it carefully. `That
seems to be done right--' he began.
`You're holding it upside down!' Alice interrupted.
`To be sure I was!' Humpty Dumpty said gaily, as she turned it
Through the Looking-Glass |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Miss Strong and her mother. They whiled away their hours
on deck reading, talking, or taking pictures with Miss
Strong's camera. When the sun had set they walked.
One day Tarzan found Miss Strong in conversation with a
stranger, a man he had not seen on board before. As he
approached the couple the man bowed to the girl and turned
to walk away.
"Wait, Monsieur Thuran," said Miss Strong; "you must meet
Mr. Caldwell. We are all fellow passengers, and should
be acquainted."
The two men shook hands. As Tarzan looked into the eyes
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: the room; she asks me to say she would have written had she been
well enough, and hopes to do it still. - Accept the best wishes of
your admirer,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Letter: TO MISS ADELAIDE BOODLE
[VAILIMA, MAY 1891.]
MY DEAR ADELAIDE, - I will own you just did manage to tread on my
gouty toe; and I beg to assure you with most people I should simply
have turned away and said no more. My cudgelling was therefore in
the nature of a caress or testimonial.
God forbid, I should seem to judge for you on such a point; it was
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