| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: adventures, and do something which shall win my father's
love.'
So he went by land, and away into the mountains, with his
father's sword upon his thigh, till he came to the Spider
mountains, which hang over Epidaurus and the sea, where the
glens run downward from one peak in the midst, as the rays
spread in the spider's web.
And he went up into the gloomy glens, between the furrowed
marble walls, till the lowland grew blue beneath his feet and
the clouds drove damp about his head.
But he went up and up for ever, through the spider's web of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: upward, as if poor Clifford wronged them by setting an image of
beauty afloat so near their dusty pathway. A great many put out
their fingers or their walking-sticks to touch, withal; and were
perversely gratified, no doubt, when the bubble, with all its
pictured earth and sky scene, vanished as if it had never been.
At length, just as an elderly gentleman of very dignified presence
happened to be passing, a large bubble sailed majestically down,
and burst right against his nose! He looked up,--at first with a
stern, keen glance, which penetrated at once into the obscurity
behind the arched window,--then with a smile which might be
conceived as diffusing a dog-day sultriness for the space of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: he was, and how little chance he had against such a man,
and he was scared and worried, and done everything he could
think of to smooth him over and get him to be good to him:
he even took his no-account brother Jubiter on the farm
and give him wages and stinted his own family to pay them;
and Jubiter done everything his brother could contrive
to insult Uncle Silas, and fret and worry him, and try
to drive Uncle Silas into doing him a hurt, so as to
injure Uncle Silas with the people. And it done it.
Everybody turned against him and said the meanest kind
of things about him, and it graduly broke his heart--yes,
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