| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: empty-handed toward noon, he hastened forward to meet them
--his usual preoccupied indifference entirely vanished, and in
its place a nervous and excited manner.
"Where is the treasure?" he cried to Clayton, while yet a
hundred feet separated them.
Clayton shook his head.
"Gone," he said, as he neared the professor.
"Gone! It cannot be. Who could have taken it?" cried
Professor Porter.
"God only knows, Professor," replied Clayton. "We might
have thought the fellow who guided us was lying about the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: I have just described it: and the inference to be drawn from them
is that no miraculous account emanating from an author of such a
period is worthy of serious attention. When Mr. Rogers supposes
that if the miracles had not really happened they would have been
challenged, he is assuming that a state of mind existed in which
it was possible for miracles to be challenged; and thus commits
an anachronism as monstrous as if he had attributed the knowledge
of some modern invention, such as steamboats, to those early
ages.
Mr. Rogers seems to complain of M. Renan for "quietly assuming"
that miracles are invariably to be rejected. Certainly a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: glad when my derisive friend closed her house for the summer.
She had expected to gather amusement from the drama of my
intercourse with the Misses Bordereau, and she was disappointed
that the intercourse, and consequently the drama, had not come off.
"They'll lead you on to your ruin," she said before she left Venice.
"They'll get all your money without showing you a scrap."
I think I settled down to my business with more concentration
after she had gone away.
It was a fact that up to that time I had not, save on a single
brief occasion, had even a moment's contact with my queer hostesses.
The exception had occurred when I carried them according
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