| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "It is you who do me good," said she. "O Philip, sail as
slowly as you can." But he only sailed farther, instead of more
slowly, gliding in and out among the rocky islands in the light
north wind, which, for a wonder, lasted all that day,--dappling
the bare hills of the Isle of Shadows with a shifting beauty.
The tide was in and brimming, the fishing-boats were busy,
white gulls soared and clattered round them, and heavy
cormorants flapped away as they neared the rocks. Beneath the
boat the soft multitudinous jellyfishes waved their fringed
pendants, or glittered with tremulous gold along their pink,
translucent sides. Long lines and streaks of paler blue lay
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: be contrived under the circumstances. And there we sat;
I at my writing desk ready to appear busy with some papers,
he behind me out of sight of the door. It would not have
been prudent to talk in daytime; and I could not have stood
the excitement of that queer sense of whispering to myself.
Now and then, glancing over my shoulder, I saw him far back there,
sitting rigidly on the low stool, his bare feet close together,
his arms folded, his head hanging on his breast--and perfectly still.
Anybody would have taken him for me.
I was fascinated by it myself. Every moment I had to glance
over my shoulder. I was looking at him when a voice outside
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "If the evidence is strong enough--yes, suh."
"An' the evidence in this here case is strong enough to hang a
dozen men, Jan," broke in Red Bill.
"Nefer you mind, Bill. I talk mit you next. Now von anodder ding
I ask Kentucky. If Shudge Lynch hang not der man, vot den?"
"If Judge Lynch does not hang the man, then the man goes free, and
his hands are washed clean of blood. And further, suh, our great
and glorious constitution has said, to wit: that no man may twice
be placed in jeopardy of his life for one and the same crime, or
words to that effect."
"Unt dey can't shoot him, or hit him mit a club over der head
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