| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: a cake of bread out of a little pouch I carried on purpose; I also
gave him a dram for himself; but he would not taste it, but carried
it to his father. I had in my pocket two or three bunches of
raisins, so I gave him a handful of them for his father. He had no
sooner given his father these raisins but I saw him come out of the
boat, and run away as if he had been bewitched, for he was the
swiftest fellow on his feet that ever I saw: I say, he ran at such
a rate that he was out of sight, as it were, in an instant; and
though I called, and hallooed out too after him, it was all one -
away he went; and in a quarter of an hour I saw him come back
again, though not so fast as he went; and as he came nearer I found
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: the fields of standing wheat; devouring always, never glutted,
never satiated, swallowing an entire harvest, snarling and
slobbering in a welter of warm vapour, acrid smoke, and blinding,
pungent clouds of chaff. It moved belly-deep in the standing
grain, a hippopotamus, half-mired in river ooze, gorging rushes,
snorting, sweating; a dinosaur wallowing through thick, hot
grasses, floundering there, crouching, grovelling there as its
vast jaws crushed and tore, and its enormous gullet swallowed,
incessant, ravenous, and inordinate.
S. Behrman, very much amused, changed places with one of the sack
sewers, allowing him to hold his horse while he mounted the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: the darkness totally concealed; but by the light of the lamp the explorers
could discover that its dome covered a vast extent of still water--
pond or lake--whose picturesque rocky banks were lost in obscurity.
"Halt!" exclaimed Ford, stopping suddenly. "Another step,
and perhaps we shall fall into some fathomless pit."
"Let us rest awhile, then, my friends," returned the engineer.
"Besides, we ought to be thinking of returning to the cottage."
"Our lamp will give light for another ten hours, sir," said Harry.
"Well, let us make a halt," replied Starr; "I confess my legs
have need of a rest. And you, Madge, don't you feel tired
after so long a walk?"
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