| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: exclaimed interrogatively, "Cut?" Meantime Pip's blue, choked face
plainly looked, Do, for God's sake! All passed in a flash. In less
than half a minute, this entire thing happened.
"Damn him, cut!" roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was
saved.
So soon as he recovered himself, the poor little negro was assailed
by yells and execrations from the crew. Tranquilly permitting these
irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain,
business-like, but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip officially;
and that done, unofficially gave him much wholesome advice. The
substance was, Never jump from a boat, Pip, except--but all the rest
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: as it is among white folks. That is the beauty of it.
It works everywhere, always."
"Try it on me," urged Theron, with a twinkling eye.
"Which am I?"
"Both," said the girl, with a merry nod of the head.
"But now I'll play. I told you you were to hear Chopin.
I prescribe him for you. He is the Greekiest of the Greeks.
THERE was a nation where all the people were artists,
where everybody was an intellectual aristocrat, where the
Philistine was as unknown, as extinct, as the dodo.
Chopin might have written his music for them."
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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: which to qualify your letter. Dear Madam, such a communication
even the vainest man would think a sufficient reward for a lifetime
of labour. That I should have been able to give so much help and
pleasure to your sister is the subject of my grateful wonder.
That she, being dead, and speaking with your pen, should be able to
repay the debt with such a liberal interest, is one of those things
that reconcile us with the world and make us take hope again. I do
not know what I have done to deserve so beautiful and touching a
compliment; and I feel there is but one thing fit for me to say
here, that I will try with renewed courage to go on in the same
path, and to deserve, if not to receive, a similar return from
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