| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: 'Me and Mus' Robin are pretty middlin' well acquainted,' the
man answered with a smile that made them forget all about walruses.
'This is Simon Cheyneys,' Puck began, and cleared his throat.
'Shipbuilder of Rye Port; burgess of the said town, and the only -'
'Oh, look! Look ye! That's a knowing one,' said the man.
Cattiwow had fastened his team to the thin end of the log, and
was moving them about with his whip till they stood at right
angles to it, heading downhill. Then he grunted. The horses took
the strain, beginning with Sailor next the log, like a tug-of-war
team, and dropped almost to their knees. The log shifted a nail's
breadth in the clinging dirt, with the noise of a giant's kiss.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: and a pair of striped gaiters on each little pair of legs, and
worsted mittens on their hands, and gave them a kiss apiece, by
way of a spell to keep away Jack Frost. Forth sallied the two
children, with a hop-skip-and-jump, that carried them at once
into the very heart of a huge snow-drift, whence Violet emerged
like a snow-bunting, while little Peony floundered out with his
round face in full bloom. Then what a merry time had they! To
look at them, frolicking in the wintry garden, you would have
thought that the dark and pitiless storm had been sent for no
other purpose but to provide a new plaything for Violet and
Peony; and that they themselves had beer created, as the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: only a dream he remembered, for he dreamed many
strange and wonderful dreams.
When the little boy was about six years of age a
strange man came to their attic home to visit the little
old woman. It was in the dusk of the evening but the
old woman did not light the cresset, and further, she
whispered to the little boy to remain in the shadows
of a far corner of the bare chamber.
The stranger was old and bent and had a great beard
which hid almost his entire face except for two piercing
eyes, a great nose and a bit of wrinkled forehead. When
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