| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: of guarding a door whereby some dear brother bond-
man might escape his galling chains. I deeply regret
the necessity that impels me to suppress any thing
of importance connected with my experience in
slavery. It would afford me great pleasure indeed,
as well as materially add to the interest of my nar-
rative, were I at liberty to gratify a curiosity, which
I know exists in the minds of many, by an accurate
statement of all the facts pertaining to my most
fortunate escape. But I must deprive myself of this
pleasure, and the curious of the gratification which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it doesn't. And then where
are you? Grass in the oven! Fight or no fight."
He asked a few questions and then his thoughts came back to his
own urgent affairs. I tried to get some comprehensive account of
the situation from him, but he would not give it.
"Oh, I wish I'd had you. I wish I'd had you, George. I've had a
lot on my hands. You're clear headed at times."
"What has happened?"
"Oh! Boom!--infernal things."
"Yes, but--how? I'm just off the sea, remember."
"It'd worry me too much to tell you now. It's tied up in a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: vent his fury on the first creature he falls foul of.
[22] Lit. "then they will take their javelins and boar-spears and
advance."
As soon as the hounds are near his lair, they will make their
onslaught. The boar, bewildered by the uproar, will rise up and toss
the first hound that ventures to attack him in front. He will then run
and fall into the toils; or if not, then after him full cry.[23] Even
if the ground on which the toils environ him be sloping, he will
recover himself promptly;[24] but if level, he will at once plant
himself firm as a rock, as if deliberating with himself.[25] At that
conjuncture the hounds will press hard upon him, while their masters
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