| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The men are placed upon the board as in chess upon the first two
rows next the players. In order from left to right on the line of
squares nearest the players, the jetan pieces are Warrior,
Padwar, Dwar, Flier, Chief, Princess, Flier, Dwar, Padwar,
Warrior. In the next line all are Panthans except the end pieces,
which are called Thoats, and represent mounted warriors.
The Panthans, which are represented as warriors with one feather,
may move one space in any direction except backward; the Thoats,
mounted warriors with three feathers, may move one straight and
one diagonal, and may jump intervening pieces; Warriors, foot
soldiers with two feathers, straight in any direction, or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: her himself. Friend
Jack often came to the cottage. He sang, and Nell, who had never
heard singing before, admired it greatly; but anyone might see
that she preferred to Jack's songs the graver conversation of Harry,
from whom by degrees she learnt truths concerning the outer world,
of which hitherto she had known nothing.
It must be said that, since Nell had appeared in her own person,
Jack Ryan had been obliged to admit that his belief in hobgoblins
was in a measure weakened. A couple of months later his credulity
experienced a further shock. About that time Harry unexpectedly made
a discovery which, in part at least, accounted for the apparition
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "Ay!" said Porthos, "the thing would not be impossible with
a good plan."
"I have none," said Athos; "but D'Artagnan will discover
one."
D'Artagnan shrugged his shoulders and they proceeded.
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D'Artagnan hits on a Plan.
As night closed in they arrived at Thirsk. The four friends
appeared to be entire strangers to one another and
indifferent to the precautions taken for guarding the king.
They withdrew to a private house, and as they had reason
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