| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the naval officers who surveyed the bottom of the great Atlantic
Ocean before laying down the electric cable between Ireland and
America. And this is what they found:
That at the bottom of the Atlantic were vast plains of soft mud,
in some places 2500 fathoms (15,000 feet) deep; that is, as deep
as the Alps are high. And more: they found out, to their
surprise, that the oozy mud of the Atlantic floor was made up
almost entirely of just the same atomies as make up our chalk,
especially globigerinas; that, in fact, a vast bed of chalk was
now forming at the bottom of the Atlantic, with living shells and
sea-animals of the most brilliant colours crawling about on it in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: up, it would be a pity. An old woman, you know; she has
grandchildren," said the foreman, continuing to smile in the same
manner, partly wishing to be pleasant to the master, and partly
because he was convinced that Nekhludoff understood all these
matters just as well as he did himself.
"Where does she live? I shall go across and see her."
"At the end of the village; the further side, the third from the
end. To the left there is a brick cottage, and her hut is beyond
that. But I'd better see you there," the foreman said with a
graceful smile.
"No, thanks, I shall find it; and you be so good as to call a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: seem to me that I'd rather live in a little better house,
and not spend it ALL on flowers. Just LOOK at that cactus!"
The voices died away. Theron sat up, with a look of arrested
thought upon his face, then sprang to his feet and moved
hurriedly through the parlor to an open front window.
Peering out with caution he saw that the two women receding
from view were fashionably dressed and evidently came
from homes of means. He stared after them in a blank
way until they turned a corner.
He went into the hall then, put on his frock-coat and hat,
and stepped out into the garden. He was conscious
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