| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: away.
"'High,' says I, 'of all the--'
"And then I noticed he looked funny, and I turned around.
"He'd taken off his clothes to the waist, and he didn't seem to hear
me. I touched him, and came near beating it. High Jack had turned to
stone. I had been drinking some rum myself.
"'Ossified!' I says to him, loudly. 'I knew what would happen if you
kept it up.'
"And then High Jack comes in from the alcove when he hears me
conversing with nobody, and we have a look at Mr. Snakefeeder No. 2.
It's a stone idol, or god, or revised statute or something, and it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: for it was very great.
MAR 16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting
on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were
affrighted.
MAR 16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of
Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the
place where they laid him.
MAR 16:7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth
before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
MAR 16:8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for
they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: forty pounds a year. I must confess that the income of eighty
pounds has somewhat baffled me, and the others are not so exact
as I could wish; for the price of washing varies largely in
foreign countries, and the different cokes, coals and firewoods
fluctuate surprisingly. I will read my researches, and I hope you
won't scruple to point out to me any little errors that I may
have committed either from oversight or ignorance. I will begin,
gentlemen, with the income of eighty pounds a year.'
Whereupon the old gentleman, with less compassion than he would
have had for brute beasts, delivered himself of all his tedious
calculations. As he occasionally gave nine versions of a single
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