| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: to blanket the earth from the cold of outer space. That was all.
Nothing happened. No storms, no churning waters and threshing
forests, nothing but the machine-like precipitation of accumulated
moisture. Possibly the most notable thing that occurred through
the weary weeks was the gliding of the temperature up to the
unprecedented height of fifteen below. To atone for this, outer
space smote the earth with its cold till the mercury froze and the
spirit thermometer remained more than seventy below for a
fortnight, when it burst. There was no telling how much colder it
was after that. Another occurrence, monotonous in its regularity,
was the lengthening of the nights, till day became a mere blink of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: of spears and arrows, then had her sons been free for ever. Curses
on yonder dross, for it is the bait that sets these sea sharks
tearing at our throats. Curses on it, I say; may it never glitter
more in the sunshine, may it be lost for ever!' And he fell
fiercely to the work of building up the wall.
Soon it was almost done; but before we set the last bricks, which
were shaped in squares like the clay lump that we use for the
building of farmeries and hinds' houses in Norfolk, I thrust a
torch through the opening and looked for the last time at the
treasure chamber that was also a dead-house. There lay the
glittering gems; there, stood upon a jar, gleamed the golden head
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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.: snares laid for him; first trepanned into an act which violated
some rule of the service; and then provoked into a breach of
discipline against the general officer who had thus trepanned him.
Now was the long-sought opportunity gained, and in that very
quarter of Germany best fitted for improving it. My father was
thrown into prison in your city, subjected to the atrocious
oppression of your jailer, and the more detestable oppression of
your local laws. The charges against him were thought even to
affect his life, and he was humbled into suing for permission to
send for his wife and children. Already, to his proud spirit, it
was punishment enough that he should be reduced to sue for favor to
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