| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: When Johann had given his new address and remarked that he would
call for his coat soon, the men parted, and Muller returned to
the police station.
The next day the principal newspaper of the town printed the
following notice:
THE GOLDEN BULLET
It is but a few days since we announced to our readers the sad
news of the death of a beautiful woman, whose leap from her
window, while suffering from the agonies of fever, destroyed
the happiness of an unusually harmonious marriage. And now we
are compelled to print the news of another equally sad as well
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: nicer adjustments, but by violent corrective reactions which
invariably send us clean over our saddle and would bring us to
the ground on the other side if the next reaction did not send us
back again with equally excessive zeal. Ecclesiasticism and
Constitutionalism send us one way, Protestantism and Anarchism
the other; Order rescues us from confusion and lands us in
Tyranny; Liberty then saves the situation and is presently found
to be as great a nuisance as Despotism. A scientifically balanced
application of these forces, theoretically possible, is
practically incompatible with human passion. Besides, we have the
same weakness in morals as in medicine: we cannot be cured of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: did not ride by the second time.
"Miss Huell!" And he jumped from his saddle, slipping his arm
through the bridle.
"I am a runaway. What do you think of the Fugitive Slave Bill?"
"I approve of returning property to its owners."
"The sea must have been God's temple first, instead of the
groves."
"I believe the Saurians were an Orthodox tribe."
"Did you stop yonder to ponder the sea?"
"I was pondering 'Lemorne vs. Huell.'"
He looked at me earnestly, and then gave a tug at the bridle, for
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