| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: into unnatural brightness. She could hear an Irish voice singing,
hear the hard rapid pounding of hooves coming up the pasture hill
at Tara, hear a reckless voice, so like the voice of her child:
"Ellen! Watch me take this one!"
"No!" she cried. "No! Oh, Bonnie, stop!"
Even as she leaned from the window there was a fearful sound of
splintering wood, a hoarse cry from Rhett, a melee of blue velvet
and flying hooves on the ground. Then Mr. Butler scrambled to his
feet and trotted off with an empty saddle.
On the third night after Bonnie's death, Mammy waddled slowly up
the kitchen steps of Melanie's house. She was dressed in black
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: As large as hope, in ink that shines by night.
For sure I see; but now I'd rather look
At you, and you are not a pleasant sight.
"Forbear, forgive. Ten years are on my soul,
And on my conscience. I've an incubus:
My one distinction, and a parlous toll
To glory; but hope lives on clamorous.
"'Twas hope, though heaven I grant you knows of what --
The kind that blinks and rises when it falls,
Whether it sees a reason why or not --
That heard Broadway's hard-throated siren-calls;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: people. He set forth to find Juan's grave, where he believed he
would also find the gold. And he came back with pebbles of gold
and flowers that shed a golden dust, and he told a wonderful
story. He had climbed and climbed into the mountains, and he had
come to a wonderful slope under the crags. That slope was yellow
with golden flowers. When he touched them golden ashes drifted
from them and blew down among the rocks. There the padre found
dust of gold, grains of gold, pebbles of gold, rocks of gold.
"Then all the padres went into the mountains. But the discoverer
of the mine lost his way. They searched and searched until they
were old and gray, but never found the wonderful slope and
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