| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: with extreme care. While they were still a mile from the ranch
house the pinto and its rider could be seen loping toward them.
"Ride forward, Denver, and tell Miss Helen we're coming. Better
have her get everything fixed to doctor him soon as we get there.
Give him the best show in the world, and he'll still be sailing
awful close to the divide. I'll bet a hundred plunks he'll cash
in, anyway."
"DONE!"
The voice came faintly from the improvised litter. Mac turned
with a start, for he had not known that Bannister was awake to
his surroundings. The man appeared the picture of helplessness,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: in the place of a clock, a basin and jug. On one side was a bottle of
water and a glass, on the other a lamp. He rang the bell; his usher
came in a few minutes after.
"Is anybody here for me yet?" he asked the man, whose business it was
to receive the witnesses, to verify their summons, and to set them in
the order of their arrival.
"Yes, sir."
"Take their names, and bring me the list."
The examining judges, to save time, are often obliged to carry on
several inquiries at once. Hence the long waiting inflicted on the
witnesses, who have seats in the ushers' hall, where the judges' bells
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human
debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous
reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a
winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black
shadows.
The specimen, as West repeatedly observed, had a splendid
nervous system. Much was expected of it; and as a few twitching
motions began to appear, I could see the feverish interest on
West’s face. He was ready, I think, to see proof of his increasingly
strong opinion that consciousness, reason, and personality can
exist independently of the brain -- that man has no central connective
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