| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: present."
This way we goes on for two or three days, and then we quits speaking
to one another. We divides up the cooking implements, and Idaho cooks
his grub on one side of the fireplace, and me on the other. The snow
is up to the windows, and we have to keep a fire all day.
You see me and Idaho never had any education beyond reading and doing
"if John had three apples and James five" on a slate. We never felt
any special need for a university degree, though we had acquired a
species of intrinsic intelligence in knocking around the world that we
could use in emergencies. But, snowbound in that cabin in the Bitter
Roots, we felt for the first time that if we had studied Homer or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: fine, this author made nothing of. "Lord, what rot they'd all be
if I hadn't been I'm a successful charlatan," he went on - "I've
been able to pass off my system. But do you know what it is? It's
cartonpierre."
"Carton-pierre?" Paul was struck, and gaped.
"Lincrusta-Walton!"
"Ah don't say such things - you make me bleed!" the younger man
protested. "I see you in a beautiful fortunate home, living in
comfort and honour."
"Do you call it honour?" - his host took him up with an intonation
that often comes back to him. "That's what I want YOU to go in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted--
On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore--
Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore--
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
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