| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: 'Escape, then,' said the old man, 'for he will have no pity
on thy youth. But yesterday he brought up hither a young man
and a maiden, and fitted them upon his bed; and the young
man's hands and feet he cut off, but the maiden's limbs he
stretched until she died, and so both perished miserably -
but I am tired of weeping over the slain. And therefore he
is called Procrustes the stretcher, though his father called
him Damastes. Flee from him: yet whither will you flee?
The cliffs are steep, and who can climb them? and there is no
other road.'
But Theseus laid his hand upon the old man's month, and said,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: it's only to knock somebody's brains out.'
"This Henry Ogden was a peculiar kind of ranchman. He wore finger-
rings and a big gold watch and careful neckties. And his face was
calm, and his nose-spectacles was kept very shiny. I saw once, in
Muscogee, an outlaw hung for murdering six men, who was a dead ringer
for him. But I knew a preacher in Arkansas that you would have taken
to be his brother. I didn't care much for him either way; what I
wanted was some fellowship and communion with holy saints or lost
sinners--anything sheepless would do.
"'Well, Saint Clair,' says he, laying down the book he was reading, 'I
guess it must be pretty lonesome for you at first. And I don't deny
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: that elephants cannot pull down and white ants will not eat,"
said the sententious Goza, thereby intimating his belief that
some time or other they would receive those blankets. As a
matter of fact the survivors of the party and the families of the
others did receive them after the war, for in dealing with
natives I have always made a point of trying to fulfil any
promise or engagement made for value received.
"And now," went on Goza, "will the Inkosi be pleased to start, as
we have to travel far to-day?"
"Impossible," I replied. "Before I leave I must eat, for who can
journey upon yesterday's food? Also I must saddle my horse,
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