| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: Tommy Brock had turned
the same way. Upon the top of the
wall, there were again the marks of
badger; and some ravellings of a
sack had caught on a briar.
Benjamin climbed over the wall,
into a meadow. He found another
mole trap newly set; he was still
upon the track of Tommy Brock.
It was getting late in the afternoon.
Other rabbits were coming out to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: was the only thing that had ever really cared for him.
And suddenly an idea came to him.
"I'm damned!" said he, staggering to his feet and clutching
the brandy bottle.
By some flash of intuition I knew what it was he intended.
"You don't give drink to that beast!" I said, rising and facing him.
"Beast!" said he. "You're the beast. He takes his liquor
like a Christian. Come out of the way, Prendick!"
"For God's sake," said I.
"Get--out of the way!" he roared, and suddenly whipped out his revolver.
"Very well," said I, and stood aside, half-minded to fall upon him
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to
love as if it had been her own! I could not consent to the death of any
human being, but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit
to remain in the society of men. But she was innocent. I know,
I feel she was innocent; you are of the same opinion, and that confirms me.
Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure
themselves of certain happiness? I feel as if I were walking on the edge
of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring
to plunge me into the abyss. William and Justine were assassinated, and
the murderer escapes; he walks about the world free, and perhaps respected.
But even if I were condemned to suffer on the scaffold for the same crimes,
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