| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: of sixteen not yet at college. In truth it was so by a set
of lucky accidents; had not Dr. Japp come on his visit, had
not the tale flowed from me with singular case, it must have
been laid aside like its predecessors, and found a circuitous
and unlamented way to the fire. Purists may suggest it would
have been better so. I am not of that mind. The tale seems
to have given much pleasure, and it brought (or, was the
means of bringing) fire and food and wine to a deserving
family in which I took an interest. I need scarcely say I
mean my own.
But the adventures of TREASURE ISLAND are not yet quite at an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Ogareff re-entered his room, now brilliantly lighted by
the flames from the Angara; then he made ready to go out.
But scarcely had he opened the door, when a woman rushed
into the room, her clothes drenched, her hair in disorder.
"Sangarre!" exclaimed Ogareff, in the first moment of
surprise, and not supposing that it could be any other
woman than the gypsy.
It was not Sangarre; it was Nadia!
At the moment when, floating on the ice, the girl had
uttered a cry on seeing the fire spreading along the current,
Michael had seized her in his arms, and plunged with her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: mon, Where much is, there are many to consume
it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it
with his eyes? The personal fruition in any man,
cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody
of them; or a power of dole, and donative of them;
or a fame of them; but no solid use to the owner.
Do you not see what feigned prices, are set upon
little stones and rarities? and what works of osten-
tation are undertaken, because there might seem
to be some use of great riches? But then you will
say, they may be of use, to buy men out of dangers
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