| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Silence. You've never heard the Silence yet, Dick, and Gawd grant
you don't ever have to hear it when you sit by the side of death.
Hear it? Ay, till the breath whistles like a siren, and the heart
booms, booms, booms, like the surf on the shore.
"Siwash, Dick, but a woman. White, Dick, white, clear through.
Towards the last she says, 'Keep my feather bed, Tommy, keep it
always.' And I agreed. Then she opened her eyes, full with the
pain. 'I've been a good woman to you, Tommy, and because of that
I want you to promise--to promise'--the words seemed to stick in
her throat--'that when you marry, the woman be white. No more
Siwash, Tommy. I know. Plenty white women down to Juneau now. I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: family did you the wrong--the more grief to me--and I feel bound
to make up to you for it in every way. Whatever I can do for you
will be nothing but paying a debt, even if I looked no further than
the robbery. But there are other things I'm beholden--shall be
beholden to you for, Marner."
Godfrey checked himself. It had been agreed between him and his
wife that the subject of his fatherhood should be approached very
carefully, and that, if possible, the disclosure should be reserved
for the future, so that it might be made to Eppie gradually. Nancy
had urged this, because she felt strongly the painful light in which
Eppie must inevitably see the relation between her father and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: cavalry, every man of which was furnished with a red flag. Their
instructions were to make their way through narrow defiles and
keep a secret watch on the enemy. "When the men of Chao see me
in full flight," Han Hsin said, "they will abandon their
fortifications and give chase. This must be the sign for you to
rush in, pluck down the Chao standards and set up the red banners
of Han in their stead." Turning then to his other officers, he
remarked: "Our adversary holds a strong position, and is not
likely to come out and attack us until he sees the standard and
drums of the commander-in-chief, for fear I should turn back and
escape through the mountains." So saying, he first of all sent
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