| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: Before entering the cabin I stood still, listening in the lobby at
the foot of the stairs. A faint snore came through the closed door
of the chief mate's room. The second mate's door was on the hook,
but the darkness in there was absolutely soundless. He, too,
was young and could sleep like a stone. Remained the steward,
but he was not likely to wake up before he was called.
I got a sleeping suit out of my room and, coming back on deck,
saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main hatch,
glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his
head in his hands. In a moment he had concealed his damp body
in a sleeping suit of the same gray-stripe pattern as the one
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: "I be turned seventeen last April," Myles answered, as he had the
evening before to Lord Mackworth.
"Humph!" said Sir James; "thou be'st big of bone and frame for
thine age. I would that thy heart were more that of a man
likewise, and less that of a giddy, hare-brained boy, thinking
continually of naught but mischief."
Again he fell silent, and Myles sat quite still, wondering if it
was on account of any special one of his latest escapades that he
had been summoned to the office--the breaking of the window in
the Long Hall by the stone he had flung at the rook, or the
climbing of the South Tower for the jackdaw's nest.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: di'monds on him."
By gracious, but it made a stir! Everybody went shouting:
"Which is him? which is him? p'int him out!"
And the judge says:
"Point him out, my lad. Sheriff, you will arrest him.
Which one is it?"
Tom says:
"This late dead man here--Jubiter Dunlap."
Then there was another thundering let-go of astonishment
and excitement; but Jubiter, which was astonished enough before,
was just fairly putrified with astonishment this time.
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