| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: always point due southwest, it is true, and it has good authority
for this variation, but it always settles between west and
south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth
seems more unexhausted and richer on that side. The outline which
would bound my walks would be, not a circle, but a parabola, or
rather like one of those cometary orbits which have been thought
to be non-returning curves, in this case opening westward, in
which my house occupies the place of the sun. I turn round and
round irresolute sometimes for a quarter of an hour, until I
decide, for a thousandth time, that I will walk into the
southwest or west. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: encounter with an involuntary cry of joy, and came downstairs with
arms wide open. It was the first intimation he had of their
previous meeting. He was for some minutes a stunned, entirely
inadequate Benham. . . .
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At first Amanda knew nobody in London, except a few people in the
Hampstead Garden suburb that she had not the slightest wish to know,
and then very quickly she seemed to know quite a lot of people. The
artistic circle brought in people, Lady Marayne brought in people;
they spread. It was manifest the Benhams were a very bright young
couple; he would certainly do something considerable presently, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: the task of pursuing them equally toilsome and precarious. There
were, however, found many youth of the country ardently attached
to this sport, with all its dangers and fatigues. The sword had
been sheathed upon the Borders for more than a hundred years, by
the peaceful union of the crowns in the reign of James the First
of Great Britain. Still the country retained traces of what it
had been in former days; the inhabitants, their more peaceful
avocations having been repeatedly interrupted by the civil wars
of the preceding century, were scarce yet broken in to the habits
of regular industry, sheep-farming had not been introduced upon
any considerable scale, and the feeding of black cattle was the
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