| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the
consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a
judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so
serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which
he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when
he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of
murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green;
but quite different, when he thought only of raising an
insurrection, or burning the metropolis.
The whole discourse was written with great acuteness, containing
many observations, both curious and useful for politicians; but,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: meals while Ally picked up her living as a seamstress.
Mr. Royall's was the only house where the young man
could have been offered a decent hospitality. There
had been nothing, therefore, in the outward course of
events to raise in Charity's breast the hopes with
which it trembled. But beneath the visible incidents
resulting from Lucius Harney's arrival there ran an
undercurrent as mysterious and potent as the influence
that makes the forest break into leaf before the ice is
off the pools.
The business on which Harney had come was authentic;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: As the new arrivals gazed upon this exquisite scene they were
enraptured by its beauties and the fragrance that permeated the soft
air, which they breathed so gratefully after the confined atmosphere
of the tunnel. Several minutes were consumed in silent admiration
before they noticed two very singular and unusual facts about this
valley. One was that it was lighted from some unseen source; for no
sun or moon was in the arched blue sky, although every object was
flooded with a clear and perfect light. The second and even more
singular fact was the absence of any inhabitant of this splendid
place. From their elevated position they could overlook the entire
valley, but not a single moving object could they see. All appeared
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