| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: remarkably swift in all her movements, and she had a
genius for judging distances that was equalled only by
her daring. Excessively timid in all other matters,
she was without fear when it came to climbing or
running through the trees, and Lop-Ear and I were
awkward and lumbering and cowardly in comparison.
She was an orphan. We never saw her with any one, and
there was no telling how long she had lived alone in
the world. She must have learned early in her helpless
childhood that safety lay only in flight. She was very
wise and very discreet. It became a sort of game with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: passed: something jarred upon it within me, - I wished him at his
convent.
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the
judgment a world of pains. - I was certain she was of a better
order of beings; - however, I thought no more of her, but went on
and wrote my preface.
The impression returned upon my encounter with her in the street; a
guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand, showed, I
thought, her good education and her good sense; and as I led her
on, I felt a pleasurable ductility about her, which spread a
calmness over all my spirits -
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: "Well, it's about a carpenter and a poetic Victorian child, you
know, and some shavin's. The child made no end out of the
shavin's. So might you. Powder 'em. They might be anything.
Soak 'em in jipper,--Xylo-tobacco! Powder'em and get a little
tar and turpentinous smell in,--wood-packing for hot baths--a
Certain Cure for the scourge of Influenza! There's all these
patent grain foods,--what Americans call cereals. I believe I'm
right, sir, in saying they're sawdust."
"No!" said my uncle, removing his cigar; "as far as I can find
out it's really grain,--spoilt grain.... I've been going into
that."
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