| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: for the ploughman.
"You wait here while I drive on
and speak to him," said the grocer,
gathering up the reins. He knew
that pigs are slippery; but surely,
such a VERY lame pig could never
run!
"Not yet, Pig-wig, he will look
back." The grocer did so; he saw
the two pigs stock-still in the mid-
dle of the road. Then he looked over
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: And then--"
"Yes," I insisted. "Yes?"
"Nightmares," he cried; "nightmares indeed! My God! Great
birds that fought and tore."
THE CONE
The night was hot and overcast, the sky red, rimmed with the
lingering sunset of mid-summer. They sat at the open window,
trying to fancy the air was fresher there. The trees and shrubs of
the garden stood stiff and dark; beyond in the roadway a gas-
lamp burnt, bright orange against the hazy blue of the evening.
Farther were the three lights of the railway signal against the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: wealth were unable to restore the equipoise of his mind; to the
former his grief made him indifferent--the latter only served him
as far as it afforded him the means of indulging his strange and
wayward fancy. He had renounced the Catholic religion, but
perhaps some of its doctrines continued to influence a mind, over
which remorse and misanthropy now assumed, in appearance, an
unbounded authority. His life has since been that alternately of
a pilgrim and a hermit, suffering the most severe privations, not
indeed in ascetic devotion, but in abhorrence of mankind. Yet no
man's words and actions have been at such a wide difference, nor
has any hypocritical wretch ever been more ingenious in assigning
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