| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Among other maladies you suffer from irritation of the palm.
Yes?"
He stared at me.
"Don't know about the palm in particular," he said, after a
while, "but being so much with the 'orses it do tend to- "
"That'll do," I said hurriedly. "Lo, here is a crown, by the
vulgar erroneously denominated a 'dollar'. Take it, and drink
the lady's health before you go to bed."
He took the coins greedily, and touched his hat. Then he
partially undressed, in the traditional fashion, and put them
away, apparently in a wallet next to his skin.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Portfolio pages of my Buckinghamshire affair. Then I went to
Duddingston and skated all afternoon. If you had seen the moon
rising, a perfect sphere of smoky gold, in the dark air above the
trees, and the white loch thick with skaters, and the great hill,
snow-sprinkled, overhead! It was a sight for a king.
WEDNESDAY. - I stayed on Duddingston to-day till after nightfall.
The little booths that hucksters set up round the edge were marked
each one by its little lamp. There were some fires too; and the
light, and the shadows of the people who stood round them to warm
themselves, made a strange pattern all round on the snow-covered
ice. A few people with torches began to travel up and down the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: The Good of a Few Words
There was one Beppo the Wise and another Beppo the Foolish.
The wise one was the father of the foolish one.
Beppo the Wise was called Beppo the Wise because he had laid up a
great treasure after a long life of hard work.
Beppo the Foolish was called Beppo the Foolish because he spent
in five years after his father was gone from this world of sorrow
all that the old man had laid together in his long life of toil.
But during that time Beppo lived as a prince, and the life was
never seen in that town before or since--feasting and drinking
and junketing and merrymaking. He had friends by the dozen and by
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