| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: home ter Tara, but den Ah hear dat all de country roun' Tara done
buhnt up. 'Sides, Ah din' hab no way ter git back an' Ah wuz
sceered de patterollers pick me up, kase Ah din' hab no pass. Den
de Yankees come in an' a Yankee gempmum, he wuz a cunnel, he tek a
shine ter me an' he keep me te ten' ter his hawse an' his boots.
"Yas, Ma'm! Ah sho did feel bigitty, bein' a body serbant lak
Poke, w'en Ah ain' nuthin' but a fe'el han'. Ah ain' tell de
Cunnel Ah wuz a fe'el han' an' he-- Well, Miss Scarlett, Yankees
is iggerunt folks! He din' know de diffunce! So Ah stayed wid him
an' Ah went ter Sabannah wid him w'en Gin'ul Sherman went dar, an'
fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett, Ah nebber seed sech awful goin'-ons as Ah
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: sense of calamity, and to judge by conduct, the same persuasion was
common to us all. A panic selfishness, like that produced by fear,
presided over the disorder of our landing. People pushed, and
elbowed, and ran, their families following how they could.
Children fell, and were picked up to be rewarded by a blow. One
child, who had lost her parents, screamed steadily and with
increasing shrillness, as though verging towards a fit; an official
kept her by him, but no one else seemed so much as to remark her
distress; and I am ashamed to say that I ran among the rest. I was
so weary that I had twice to make a halt and set down my bundles in
the hundred yards or so between the pier and the railway station,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The best you ever saw; and he'll be there
Anon, as you're an Alderman. Good God!
He makes me lie awake o' nights and laugh.
And you have known him from his origin,
You tell me; and a most uncommon urchin
He must have been to the few seeing ones --
A trifle terrifying, I dare say,
Discovering a world with his man's eyes,
Quite as another lad might see some finches,
If he looked hard and had an eye for nature.
But this one had his eyes and their foretelling,
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