| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: entertainer, all this amenity of the tropic night and all these
dainties of the island table, were grown things of custom; and
they fell to meat like men who were hungry, and drifted into
idle talk like men who were a trifle bored.
The scene in the club was referred to.
"I never heard you talk so much nonsense, Loudon," said the
host.
"Well, it seemed to me there was sulphur in the air, so I talked
for talking," returned the other. "But it was none of it
nonsense."
"Do you mean to say it was true?" cried Havens,--"that about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . .
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . .
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: narrow, ill-kept street."
" Yes, I see it myself now. The street is bordered mainly by
gardens and vacant lots."
"Yes, sir, that is it." Muller nodded as if satisfied. Amster
looked at him in surprise, still more surprised, however, at the
excitement he felt himself. He did not understand it, but Muller
understood it. He knew that he had found in Amster a talent akin
to his own, one of those natures who once having taken up a trail
cannot rest until they reach their goal. He looked for a few
moments in satisfaction at the assistant he had found by such
chance, then he turned and hastened down the stairs again.
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