| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: blanket roll was over his back; in his left hand swung the
bird cage wrapped in sacks.
Just outside the town he paused, as if suddenly remembering
something.
"There ought to be a trail just off the road here," he
muttered. "There used to be a trail--a short cut."
The next instant, without moving from his position, he saw
where it opened just before him. His instinct had halted
him at the exact spot. The trail zigzagged down the abrupt
descent of the canyon, debouching into a gravelly river bed.
"Indian River," muttered the dentist. "I remember--I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: tropically warm; we had sought the shore for a breath of living
air. Sunset came, and with it the ponderous heat lifted,--a
sudden breeze blew,--lightnings flickered in the darkening
horizon,--wind and water began to strive together,--and soon all
the low coast boomed. Then my companion began his story; perhaps
the coming of the storm inspired him to speak! And as I listened
to him, listening also to the clamoring of the coast, there
flashed back to me recollection of a singular Breton fancy: that
the Voice of the Sea is never one voice, but a tumult of many
voices--voices of drowned men,--the muttering of multitudinous
dead,--the moaning of innumerable ghosts, all rising, to rage
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: to another of them.
Toward evening he came to a good Inn and asked the inn-keeper if he
could have food and lodging.
"You can if you have the money to pay," said the man, "otherwise you
must go elsewhere."
This surprised Kiki, for in the Land of Oz they do not use money at
all, everyone being allowed to take what he wishes without price. He
had no money, therefore, and so he turned away to seek hospitality
elsewhere. Looking through an open window into one of the rooms of
the Inn, as he passed along, he saw an old man counting on a table a
big heap of gold pieces, which Kiki thought to be money. One of these
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