| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: million stars.
There were three of the outlaw's men with him, and both
Mcwilliams and his friend noticed that they slept a little apart
from their chief. There were other indications among the rustlers
of a camp divided against itself. Bannister's orders to them he
contrived to make an insult, and their obedience was as surly as
possible compatible with safety. For all of the men knew that he
would not hesitate to shoot them down in one of his violent rages
should they anger him sufficiently.
Throughout the night there was no time that at least two men were
not awake in the camp. The foreman and the sheepman took turns
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: felt the symptoms brush his cheek and as to which he wondered much
in what form it would find its liveliest effect.
Perhaps it would take the form of sudden dispersal - a frightened
sauve qui peut, a scuttling into selfish corners. Certainly they
were less elastic than of yore; they were evidently looking for
something they didn't find. The Dorringtons hadn't re-appeared,
the princes had scattered; wasn't that the beginning of the end?
Mrs. Moreen had lost her reckoning of the famous "days"; her social
calendar was blurred - it had turned its face to the wall.
Pemberton suspected that the great, the cruel discomfiture had been
the unspeakable behaviour of Mr. Granger, who seemed not to know
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: sein de la mer . . . Il n'y a rien au monde d'aussi blanc que ton
corps.--Laisse-moi toucher ton corps!
IOKANAAN. Arriere, fille de Babylone! C'est par la femme que le
mal est entre dans le monde. Ne me parlez pas. Je ne veux pas
t'ecouter. Je n'ecoute que les paroles du Seigneur Dieu.
SALOME. Ton corps est hideux. Il est comme le corps d'un lepreux.
Il est comme un mur de platre ou les viperes sont passees, comme un
mur de platre ou les scorpions ont fait leur nid. Il est comme un
sepulcre blanchi, et qui est plein de choses degoutantes. Il est
horrible, il est horrible ton corps! . . . C'est de tes cheveux que
je suis amoureuse, Iokanaan. Tes cheveux ressemblent e des grappes
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