| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: "'Uncle Emsley,' says I, 'I'm not wounded in the head except so far as
my natural cognitive instincts run to runts. Jackson Bird told me he
was calling on Miss Willella for the purpose of finding out her system
of producing pancakes, and he asked me to help him get the bill of
lading of the ingredients. I done so, with the results as you see.
Have I been sodded down with Johnson grass by a pink-eyed snoozer, or
what?'
"'Slack up your grip in my dress shirt,' says Uncle Emsley, 'and I'll
tell you. Yes, it looks like Jackson Bird has gone and humbugged you
some. The day after he went riding with Willella he came back and told
me and her to watch out for you whenever you got to talking about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: Evidently he had been dressing himself with the most headlong
rapidity; he had not yet put on his coat and vest, but carried
them over his arm, while with his disengaged hand he kept
hitching his suspenders over his shoulders with a persistent and
hypnotic gesture. Without a moment's pause he gave vent to his
indignation in a torrent of words.
"Ah, yes, in my bed, sloop, aha! I know the man who put it
there," he went on, glaring at Osterman, "and that man is a PIP.
Sloop! Slimy, disgusting stuff; you heard me say I didn't like
it when the Chink passed it to me at dinner--and just for that
reason you put it in my bed, and I stick my feet into it when I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: the elements of some truth which she could not express in clear
and definite language.
One day I was seated in Zikali's hut whither by permission I had
come to ask the latest news, when suddenly Nombe appeared and
crouched down before him.
"Who gave you leave to enter here, and what is your business?" he
asked angrily.
"Home of Spirits," she replied in a humble voice, "be not angry
with your servant. Necessity gave me leave, and my business is
to tell you that strangers approach."
"Who are they that dare to enter the Black Kloof unannounced?"
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