| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: to be learning, but had fared forth to the reborn earth, to the
stir and movement of creeping things. The call of nature awakening
from its long winter sleep drummed in his heart. He could
sympathize with the bluebottle buzzing against the sunny
windowpane in its efforts to reach the free world outside.
Recess! With the sound of the gong his heart leaped, but he kept
his place in the line with perfect decorum. It would never do to
be called back now for a momentary indiscretion. From the school
yard he slipped the back way and dived into a bank of great ferns.
In the heart of this he lay until the bell had called his
classmates back to work. Cautiously he crept from his hiding place
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: together. Meanwhile from the other side of the marsh came the
sound of Stepan Arkadyevitch's shots, not frequent, but, as Levin
fancied, well-directed, for almost after each they heard "Krak,
Krak, apporte!"
This excited Levin still more. The snipe were floating
continually in the air over the reeds. Their whirring wings close
to the earth, and their harsh cries high in the air, could be
heard on all sides; the snipe that had risen first and flown up
into the air, settled again before the sportsmen. Instead of two
hawks there were now dozens of them hovering with shrill cries
over the marsh.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: know you to be a worthy, kind, and well-accomplished gentleman,
who would rather help than harm a poor man that is in a strait."
"Well said, Wayland," said the boy, who had anxiously awaited the
issue of their conference. "But let us to thy den, man, for it
is ill for thy health to stand here talking in the open air."
"Thou art right, Hobgoblin," replied the smith; and going to the
little thicket of gorse on the side nearest to the circle, and
opposite to that at which his customer had so lately crouched, he
discovered a trap-door curiously covered with bushes, raised it,
and, descending into the earth, vanished from their eyes.
Notwithstanding Tressilian's curiosity, he had some hesitation at
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