| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: growing bowed, the hair falling scant and grey upon his
head; and the last that ever I saw of him, he was
standing at the mouth of an entry with several men in
moleskin, three parts drunk, and his old black raiment
daubed with mud. I fancy that I still can hear him
laugh. There was something heart-breaking in this
gradual declension at so advanced an age; you would have
thought a man of sixty out of the reach of these
calamities; you would have thought that he was niched by
that time into a safe place in life, whence he could pass
quietly and honourably into the grave.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: monkish cowl his eyes gleamed with a fierce expression which
surprised me. All he said was:
"He has come out here to wash the new paint off his yards, I
suppose."
"What?" I shouted, getting up on my knees. "Is she the
guardacosta?"
The perpetual suggestion of a smile under Dominic's piratical
moustaches seemed to become more accentuated - quite real, grim,
actually almost visible through the wet and uncurled hair. Judging
by that symptom, he must have been in a towering rage. But I could
also see that he was puzzled, and that discovery affected me
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: tremendous vitality; and slowly he sank on his side.
XXVI. JUJA
Most people have heard of Juja, the modern dwelling in the heart
of an African wilderness, belonging to our own countryman,
Mr. W. N. McMillan. If most people are as I was before I saw the place,
they have considerable curiosity and no knowledge of what it is
and how it looks.
We came to Juja at the end of a wide circle that had lasted three
months, and was now bringing us back again toward our starting
point. For five days we had been camped on top a high bluff at
the junction of two rivers. When we moved we dropped down the
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