| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: was led by the chief into the prairie, about four hundred yards
from the main body of savages, and then turned loose to save
himself if he could. A tremendous yell let him know that the
whole pack of bloodhounds were off in full cry. Colter flew
rather than ran; he was astonished at his own speed; but he had
six miles of prairie to traverse before he should reach the
Jefferson Fork of the Missouri; how could he hope to hold out
such a distance with the fearful odds of several hundred to one
against him! The plain, too, abounded with the prickly pear,
which wounded his naked feet. Still he fled on, dreading each
moment to hear the twang of a bow, and to feel an arrow quivering
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "Can one really do that?"
"Yes. I can't say I have been bored to extinction. I am still
alive, as you see; but I have done with that and I feel extremely
idle. There is only one thing I would like to do. I want to find
a few words that could convey to you my gratitude for all your
friendliness in the past, at the time when you let me see so much
of you in London. I felt always that you took me on my own terms
and that so kindly that often I felt inclined to think better of
myself. But I am afraid I am wearying you, Mrs. Travers."
"I assure you you have never done that--in the past. And as to
the present moment I beg you not to go away. Stay by me please.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: above the flood of the Nile, toward the desert between Africa and
Egypt; that is to say, of the garners of Joseph, that he let make
for to keep the grains for the peril of the dear years. And they
be made of stone, full well made of masons' craft; of the which two
be marvellously great and high, and the tother ne be not so great.
And every garner hath a gate for to enter within, a little high
from the earth; for the land is wasted and fallen since the garners
were made. And within they be all full of serpents. And above the
garners without be many scriptures of diverse languages. And some
men say, that they be sepultures of great lords, that were
sometime, but that is not true, for all the common rumour and
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