| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: What a wonderful place you have made of this,
Alexandra." He turned and looked back at the
wide, map-like prospect of field and hedge and
pasture. "I would never have believed it could
be done. I'm disappointed in my own eye, in
my imagination."
At this moment Lou and Oscar came up the
hill from the orchard. They did not quicken
their pace when they saw Carl; indeed, they
did not openly look in his direction. They
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: that's all."
The big wholesale supply houses, the caterers for his hotels, and
all the crowd that incessantly demanded to be paid, had their hot
half-hours with him. He summoned them to his office and
displayed his latest patterns of can and can't and will and
won't.
"By God, you've got to carry me!" he told them. "If you think
this is a pleasant little game of parlor whist and that you can
quit and go home whenever you want, you're plumb wrong. Look
here, Watkins, you remarked five minutes ago that you wouldn't
stand for it. Now let me tell you a few. You're going to stand
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: "Do you know, Ben Zoof, that Montmartre only requires a matter
of some thirteen thousand feet to make it as high as Mont Blanc?"
Ben Zoof's eyes glistened with delight; and from that moment Hector Servadac
and Montmartre held equal places in his affection.
CHAPTER III
INTERRUPTED EFFUSIONS
Composed of mud and loose stones, and covered with a thatch of turf
and straw, known to the natives by the name of "driss," the gourbi,
though a grade better than the tents of the nomad Arabs, was yet far
inferior to any habitation built of brick or stone. It adjoined an old
stone hostelry, previously occupied by a detachment of engineers,
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