| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: I told him all my story in one rush of words. He heard me,
from the first, with an amazement you can scarcely picture,
but when I came to the death of the Senora Mendizabal in the
tornado, he fairly leaped into the air.
'My dear child,' he cried, clasping me in his arms, 'excuse a
man who might be your father! This is the best news I ever
had since I was born; for that hag of a mulatto was no less a
person than my wife.' He sat down upon a tar-barrel, as if
unmanned by joy. 'Dear me,' said he, 'I declare this tempts
me to believe in Providence. And what,' he added, 'can I do
for you?'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: It hath been sung at festivals,
On ember-eves and holy-ales;
And lords and ladies in their lives
Have read it for restoratives:
The purchase is to make men glorious;
Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.
If you, born in these latter times,
When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes,
And that to hear an old man sing
May to your wishes pleasure bring,
I life would wish, and that I might
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: eighteen months; how he had killed Tom Mooney, Bob Carney and
several others--these were the sorts of things that were being
said about him, and from the bottom of his soul he resented his
impotency to clear his name.
There was something in Bannister's riding that caught Helen's
fancy at once. It was the unconscious grace of the man, the ease
with which he seemed to make himself a very part of the horse. He
attempted no tricks, rode without any flourishes. But the perfect
poise of his lithe body as it gave with the motions of the horse,
proclaimed him a born rider; so finished, indeed, that his very
ease seemed to discount the performance. Steamboat had a
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