| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the ape-man, they experienced a taste of what the apaches
had but recently gone through. So quickly and so roughly
did he handle them that they had not even an opportunity
to draw their revolvers.
During the brief fight Tarzan had noted the open window
and, beyond, the stem of a tree, or a telegraph pole--he
could not tell which. As the last officer went down, one of
his fellows succeeded in drawing his revolver and, from
where he lay on the floor, fired at Tarzan. The shot missed,
and before the man could fire again Tarzan had swept the
lamp from the mantel and plunged the room into darkness.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: Briskly, he averted his mind. Attwater: that was the point.
Attwater had food and a treasure of pearls; escape made possible
in the present, riches in the future. They must come to grips,
with Attwater; the man must die. A smoky heat went over his
face, as he recalled the impotent figure he had made last night
and the contemptuous speeches he must bear in silence. Rage,
shame, and the love of life, all pointed the one way; and only
invention halted: how to reach him? had he strength enough?
was there any help in that misbegotten packet of bones against
the house?
His eyes dwelled upon him with a strange avidity, as though
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: that of a child. It did not seem possible that any man could lie
there like that with the guilt of murder on his conscience, or even
with the knowledge in his soul that he had plundered a corpse.
Muller had never believed the first to be the case, but he had
thought it possible that Knoll knew perfectly well that it was a
lifeless body he was robbing. He had believed it at least until
the moment when he stood looking down at the sleeping tramp. Now,
with the deep knowledge of the human heart which was his by
instinct and which his profession had increased a thousand-fold,
Muller knew that this man before him had no heavy crime upon his
conscience - that it was really as he had said - that he had taken
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