| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: meal, for not since they had left home had they tasted
such good food. It was surprising that Button-Bright
could eat so soon after his feast in Jinxland, but the
boy always ate whenever there was an opportunity. "If I
don't eat now," he said, "the next time I'm hungry I'll
wish I had."
"Really, Cap'n," remarked Trot, when she found a dish
of ice-cream appear beside her plate, "I b'lieve this is
fairyland, sure enough."
"There's no doubt of it, Trot," he answered gravely
"I've been here before," said Button-Bright, "so I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: Gordon Wright, who was a dogged pedestrian, always enjoyed doing
his ten miles, and Longueville, who was an incorrigible stroller,
felt a keen relish for the picturesqueness of the country.
But it was not, on this occasion, of the charms of the landscape
or the pleasures of locomotion that they chiefly discoursed.
Their talk took a more closely personal turn. It was a year
since they had met, and there were many questions to ask and answer,
many arrears of gossip to make up. As they stretched themselves on
the grass on a sun-warmed hill-side, beneath a great German oak whose
arms were quiet in the blue summer air, there was a lively exchange
of impressions, opinions, speculations, anecdotes. Gordon Wright
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: taught to quest for her (time after time) in proper style, they may
end by becoming skirters[21]--a bad education.[22]
[21] {ekkunoi}, cf. Arrian, xxv. 5.
[22] {poneron mathema}, ib. 9.
As long as they are pups, they should have their food given them near
the nets, when these are being taken up,[23] so that if from
inexperience they should lose their way on the hunting-field, they may
come back for it and not be altogether lost. In time they will be quit
of this instinct themselves,[24] when their hostile feeling towards
the animal is developed, and they will be more concerned about the
quarry than disposed to give their food a thought.[25]
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