| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: what's the true Lin deep down. Nor will his deep-down love for you hinder
him like it will hinder you. Don't you know men and us is different when
it comes to passion? We're all one thing then, but they ain't simple.
They keep along with lots of other things. I can't make yus know, and I
guess it takes a woman like I have been to learn their nature. But you
did know he loved you, and you sent him away, and you'll be homeless in
yer house when he has done the right thing by himself and found another
girl.'
"Lin, all the while I was talkin' all I knowed to her, without knowin'
what I'd be sayin' next, for it come that unexpected, she was lookin' at
me with them steady eyes. And all she says when I quit was, 'If I saw him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: I only know this, that if I am the cause of un-
happiness in others I myself am no less unhappy.
Of course, that is a poor consolation to them --
only the fact remains that such is the case.
In my early youth, from the moment I ceased
to be under the guardianship of my relations, I
began madly to enjoy all the pleasures which
money could buy -- and, of course, such pleasures
became irksome to me. Then I launched out
into the world of fashion -- and that, too, soon
palled upon me. I fell in love with fashionable
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: known the two to be the same.
Bucky was at the telephone half an hour. In the middle of the
next afternoon his reward came in the form of a Western Union
billet. It read:
"Eastern man says you don't want what is salable here."
The lieutenant cut out every other word and garnered the wheat of
the message:
"Man you want is here."
The telegram was marked from Epitaph, and for that town the
ranger and the sheriff entrained immediately.
Bucky's eye searched in vain the platform of the Epitaph depot
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