| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: on the galluses. And that puts me in mind that I ought to have turned
Rufe out of the lockup before yesterday. The thirty days he got for
killin' Yance Goodloe was up then. A day or two more won't hurt Rufe
any, though.'
"'Shucks, now,' says I, in the mountain idiom, 'don't tell me there's
a man in Mount Nebo as bad as that.'
"'Worse,' says the storekeeper. 'He steals hogs.'
"I think I will look up this Mr. Tatum; so a day or two after the
constable turned him out I got acquainted with him and invited him out
on the edge of town to sit on a log and talk business.
"What I wanted was a partner with a natural rural make-up to play a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: At length, thanks to modern art, instruments of still higher
perfection searched the moon without intermission, not leaving
a single point of her surface unexplored; and notwithstanding
that her diameter measures 2,150 miles, her surface equals the
one-fifteenth part of that of our globe, and her bulk the
one-forty-ninth part of that of the terrestrial spheroid-- not
one of her secrets was able to escape the eyes of the
astronomers; and these skillful men of science carried to an
even greater degree their prodigious observations.
Thus they remarked that, during full moon, the disc appeared
scored in certain parts with white lines; and, during the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: forefather, his wife, and many of their children. This funeral was
the saddest of sights, for the bitterness of my father's grief
broke from him in sobs and my sister Mary swooned away in my arms.
Indeed there were few dry eyes in all that church, for my mother,
notwithstanding her foreign birth, was much loved because of her
gentle ways and the goodness of her heart. But it came to an end,
and the noble Spanish lady and English wife was left to her long
sleep in the ancient church, where she shall rest on when her
tragic story and her very name are forgotten among men. Indeed
this is likely to be soon, for I am the last of the Wingfields
alive in these parts, though my sister Mary has left descendants of
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