| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: picked himself up from her feet, crept past her to the seat
beyond, and almost instantly whipped his rifle to his shoulder in
prompt defiance of the fire that was now converged on them.
Yet in a few moments the sound died away, for a voice midway in
the crescent had shouted an amazed discovery:
"By God, it's a woman!"
The car skimmed forward over the uneven ground toward the end of
the semicircle, and passed within fifty yards of the second man
from the end, the one she had picked out as the leader of the
party. He was a black, swarthy fellow in plain leather chaps and
blue shirt. As they passed he took a long, steady aim.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 10: 4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Genesis 10: 5 Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10: 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10: 7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis 10: 8 And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Genesis 10: 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.'
Genesis 10: 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10: 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,
Genesis 10: 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah--the same is the great city.
Genesis 10: 13 And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
Genesis 10: 14 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim--whence went forth the Philistines--and Caphtorim.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: honor governing the conduct of the officers. Here only, and for
the first time, he found ruffian manners and universal rapacity.
He could not draw his sword in company with such men, nor in such a
cause. But at length, under the pressure of necessity, he accepted
(or rather bought with an immense bribe) the place of a commissary
to the French forces in Italy. With this one resource, eventually
he succeeded in making good the whole of his public claims upon the
Italian states. These vast sums he remitted, through various
channels, to England, where he became proprietor in the funds to an
immense amount. Incautiously, however, something of this
transpired, and the result was doubly unfortunate; for, while his
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