| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: was now mighty withal, on account of the powerfulness of the wine
which he had drunken, waited no longer to hold parley with the
hermit, who, in sooth, was of an obstinate and maliceful turn,
but, feeling the rain upon his shoulders, and fearing the rising
of the tempest, uplifted his mace outright, and, with blows, made
quickly room in the plankings of the door for his gauntleted
hand; and now pulling therewith sturdily, he so cracked, and
ripped, and tore all asunder, that the noise of the dry and
hollow-sounding wood alarmed and reverberated throughout the
forest."
At the termination of this sentence I started, and for a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: thee.
MAT 26:74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the
man. And immediately the cock crew.
MAT 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him,
Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and
wept bitterly.
MAT 27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of
the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
MAT 27:2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered
him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
MAT 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: The rails came straight forward from the shaft, here and
there overgrown with little green bushes, but still entire,
and still carrying a truck, which it was Sam's delight to
trundle to and fro by the hour with various ladings. About
midway down the platform, the railroad trended to the right,
leaving our house and coasting along the far side within a
few yards of the madronas and the forge, and not far of the
latter, ended in a sort of platform on the edge of the dump.
There, in old days, the trucks were tipped, and their load
sent thundering down the chute. There, besides, was the only
spot where we could approach the margin of the dump.
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