| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: respite, find room upon the patient creature's back, where they are
content to lead a tranquil life and to be carted about.
The little ones are very good; none moves, none seeks a quarrel
with his neighbours. Clinging together, they form a continuous
drapery, a shaggy ulster under which the mother becomes
unrecognizable. Is it an animal, a fluff of wool, a cluster of
small seeds fastened to one another? 'Tis impossible to tell at
the first glance.
The equilibrium of this living blanket is not so firm but that
falls often occur, especially when the mother climbs from indoors
and comes to the threshold to let the little ones take the sun.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: "I thought the intrusion singular enough, but never harboured for
a moment the idea that what I saw was anything more than the
mortal form of some old woman about the establishment, who had a
fancy to dress like her grandmother, and who, having perhaps (as
your lordship mentioned that you were rather straitened for room)
been dislodged from her chamber for my accommodation, had
forgotten the circumstance, and returned by twelve to her old
haunt. Under this persuasion I moved myself in bed and coughed a
little, to make the intruder sensible of my being in possession
of the premises. She turned slowly round, but, gracious Heaven!
my lord, what a countenance did she display to me! There was no
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: making children happy. The Fairy Queen also promised her assistance,
and then, fortified by this powerful support, Wisk flew back to where
Nuter and Peter and Kilter awaited him, and the four counseled
together and laid plans to rescue their master from his enemies.
It is possible that Santa Claus was not as merry as usual during the
night that succeeded his capture. For although he had faith in the
judgment of his little friends he could not avoid a certain amount of
worry, and an anxious look would creep at times into his kind old eyes
as he thought of the disappointment that might await his dear little
children. And the Daemons, who guarded him by turns, one after
another, did not neglect to taunt him with contemptuous words in his
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