| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: years, and of a strong, speaking, and intellectual
countenance stigmatised by weariness and famine. He beckoned
my father near the cliff, and there, in the most private
whisper, begged for brandy. My father looked at him with
scorn: 'You remind me,' he said, 'of a neglected duty. Here
is my flask; it contains enough, I trust, to revive the women
of your party; and I will begin with her whom I saw you
robbing of her blankets.' And with that, not heeding his
appeals, my father turned his back upon the egoist.
The girl still lay reclined against the rock; she lay too far
sunk in the first stage of death to have observed the bustle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: consciousness he found himself securely bound, as was
Werper also. The Belgian officer, success having
crowned his efforts, was in good humor, and inclined to
chaff his prisoners about the ease with which they had
been captured; but from Tarzan of the Apes he elicited
no response. Werper, however, was voluble in his
protests. He explained that Tarzan was an English
lord; but the officer only laughed at the assertion,
and advised his prisoner to save his breath for his
defense in court.
As soon as Tarzan regained his senses and it was found
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: would not have acted otherwise than as he did in the affair of Spain.
History, in the days when Catherine was born, if judged from the point
of view of honesty, would seem an impossible tale. Charles V., obliged
to sustain Catholicism against the attacks of Luther, who threatened
the Throne in threatening the Tiara, allowed the siege of Rome and
held Pope Clement VII. in prison! This same Clement, who had no
bitterer enemy than Charles V., courted him in order to make
Alessandro de' Medici ruler of Florence, and obtained his favorite
daughter for that bastard. No sooner was Alessandro established than
he, conjointly with Clement VII., endeavored to injure Charles V. by
allying himself with Francois I., king of France, by means of
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