| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: "I tink-um ship," answered Charlie calmly, looking out over the
starboard quarter.
"Ship!"
"Him velly sick," hazarded the Chinaman from the ratlines, adding
a sentence in Chinese to Charlie.
"He says he tink-um ship sick, all same; ask um something--ship
velly sick."
By this time the Captain, Wilbur, and all on board could plainly
make out a sail some eight miles off the starboard bow. Even at
that distance, and to eyes so inexperienced as those of Wilbur, it
needed but a glance to know that something was wrong with her. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: hence we may take the bones of our comrades home to their
children. Hard by the funeral pyre we will build a barrow that
shall be raised from the plain for all in common; near this let
us set about building a high wall, to shelter ourselves and our
ships, and let it have well-made gates that there may be a way
through them for our chariots. Close outside we will dig a deep
trench all round it to keep off both horse and foot, that the
Trojan chieftains may not bear hard upon us."
Thus he spoke, and the princess shouted in applause. Meanwhile
the Trojans held a council, angry and full of discord, on the
acropolis by the gates of King Priam's palace; and wise Antenor
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: visible effort to seem quieter than he was, and it showed me
sufficiently that he had not been reassured. I laid, to comfort
him and smiling at a venture, a friendly hand on his arm, and he
dropped into my eyes, fixing them an instant, a strange distended
look which might have expressed the cold clearness of all that was
to come. "I KNOW--now!" he said with an emphasis he rarely used.
"What then did Mrs. Meldrum tell you?"
"Only one thing that signified, for she has no real knowledge. But
that one thing was everything."
"What is it then?"
"Why, that she can't bear the sight of her." His pronouns required
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