The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: had crept into the room through the open window by King
Rinkitink's bed.
Resolving to begin the search for his parents without
any unnecessary delay, Inga at once got out of bed and
began to dress himself, while Rinkitink, in the other
bed, was still sleeping peacefully. But when the boy
had put on both his stockings and began looking for his
shoes, he could find but one of them. The left shoe,
that containing the Pink Pearl, was missing.
Filled with anxiety at this discovery, Inga searched
through the entire room, looking underneath the beds
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: comfortable beds and breakfast as early as they liked; but Bertie had
become entirely responsible. Billy was helped in, Silas was liberally
thanked, and they drove away beneath the stars, leaving behind them
golden opinions, and a host who decided not to disturb his helpmate by
retiring to rest in their conjugal bed.
Bertie had forgotten, but the playful gelding had not. When they came
abreast of that gate where Diggs of the Bird-in-Hand had met them at
sunset, Bertie was only aware that a number of things had happened at
once, and that he had stopped the horse after about twenty yards of
battle. Pride filled him, but emptied away in the same instant, for a
voice on the road behind him spoke inquiringly through the darkness.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: itself apt to exercise a morbid influence, even upon an author's
choice of language and the turn of his sentences. And yet there is
much that makes the attempt attractive; for any expression, however
imperfect, once given to a cherished feeling, seems a sort of
legitimation of the pleasure we take in it. A common sentiment is
one of those great goods that make life palatable and ever new. The
knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things,
even if they are little things, not much otherwise than we have seen
them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest
pleasures.
Let the reader, then, betake himself in the spirit we have
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