| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: kind of carte blanche which she had extorted from the
cardinal, and by means of which she could with impunity get
rid of you and perhaps of us."
"But this creature must be a demon!" said Porthos, holding
out his plate to Aramis, who was cutting up a fowl.
"And this carte blanche," said D'Artagnan, "this carte
blanche, does it remain in her hands?"
"No, it passed into mine; I will not say without trouble,
for if I did I should tell a lie."
"My dear Athos, I shall no longer count the number of times
I am indebted to you for my life."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: twenty-nine days. It seemed that some crank had fasted that many
days in order to get accurate statistics showing just how long
the working man could hope to last after England pushed the
button for the money panic.
Another book said that Wall Street now owned ninety per cent.
of the wealth in America and was getting the other ten at the
rate of eight per cent. a year. Within twelve years Wall Street
would own everything in the world, and mankind would be left
naked and starving.
The wildest book of all was called Caesar's Column. It was in
the form of a novel and told how the rich in America worshiped
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: varieties of the Labyrinthadonta. These creatures, from which
God save me, I should have expected to find further south; but
for some unaccountable reason they gain their greatest bulk in
the Kro-lu and Galu countries, though fortunately they are rare.
I rather imagine that they are a very early life which is
rapidly nearing extinction in Caspak, though wherever they
are found, they constitute a menace to all forms of life.
It was mid-afternoon when To-mar and So-al bade us good-bye.
We were not far from Kro-lu village; in fact, we had approached
it much closer than we had intended, and now Ajor and I were to
make a detour toward the sea while our companions went directly
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