| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: time, and maintained a running fire of commendatory remarks: "Good!--that's
it!--that's the stuff!--psychology's all right!--the very idea!--you've caught
it!--excellent!--missed it a bit here, but it'll go--that's vigorous!
--strong!--vivid!--pictures! pictures!--excellent!--most excellent!"
And when he had run down to the bottom of the last page, holding out his hand:
"My dear Miss Wyman, I congratulate you. I must say you have exceeded my
expectations, which, to say the least, were large. You are a journalist, a
natural journalist. You've got the grip, and you're sure to get on. The
INTELLIGENCER will take it, without doubt, and take you too. They'll have to
take you. If they don't, some of the other papers will get you."
"But what's this?" he queried, the next instant, his face going serious.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: The
next day I was up and around the camp, but took no part in the
excavations. Seeing that I could not stop the work, I decided
to return home as soon as possible for the sake of my nerves,
and made my son promise to fly me in the plane to Perth - a thousand
miles to the southwest - as soon as he had surveyed the region
I wished let alone.
If, I reflected, the thing I had seen was
still visible, I might decide to attempt a specific warning even
at the cost of ridicule. It was just conceivable that the miners
who knew the local folklore might back me up. Humouring me, my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: those skilled in the arts of magic, wizardry and
sorcery, to realize that a single word could raise that
great, heavy island, with its immense glass Dome.
"Why, we're way above the lake now!" exclaimed
Dorothy from the window, when at last the island ceased
to move.
"That is because we lowered the level of the water,"
explained Glinda.
They could hear the Skeezers cheering lustily in the
streets of the village as they realized that they were
saved.
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