| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: rather read a tiny essay by Charles Lamb than a five-hundred page
libel on life by a modern British novelist who shall be nameless.
Flavour is the priceless quality. Style is the thing that counts
and is remembered, in literature, in art, and in berries.
No JOCUNDA, nor TRIUMPH, nor VICTORIA, nor any other high-titled
fruit that ever took the first prize at an agricultural fair, is
half so delicate and satisfying as the wild strawberry that dropped
into my mouth, under the hemlock tree, beside the Swiftwater.
A touch of surprise is essential to perfect sweetness.
To get what you have been wishing for is pleasant; but to get what
you have not been sure of, makes the pleasure tingle. A new door of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: as unencumbered! I've a description of it among those
stupid papers he made me bring away with me from his
office. I'll try to find it."
Octavia found her shopping-bag, and drew from it a
long envelope filled with typewritten documents.
"A ranch in Texas," sighed Aunt Ellen. "It sounds
to me more like a liability than an asset. Those are the
places where the centipedes are found, and cowboys,
and fandangos."
"'The Rancho de las Sombras,'" read Octavia from
a sheet of violently purple typewriting "'is situated one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 30: 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
1_Samuel 30: 11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink;
1_Samuel 30: 12 and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins; and when he had eaten, his spirit came back to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
1_Samuel 30: 13 And David said unto him: 'To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou?' And he said: 'I am a young Egyptian, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
1_Samuel 30: 14 We made a raid upon the South of the Cherethites, and upon that which belongeth to Judah, and upon the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.'
1_Samuel 30: 15 And David said to him: 'Wilt thou bring me down to this troop?' And he said: 'Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.'
1_Samuel 30: 16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and feasting, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
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