| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: peppery. You wanter smooth him down some, seeing as he's riled up
to-day."
A flicker of steel came into the blue eyes. "Indeed! Well, here
we are."
"If it ain't Reddy, AND the lady with the flying machine,"
murmured a freckled youth named McWilliams, emerging from the
bunkhouse with a pan of water which had been used to bathe the
wound of one of the punctured combatants.
"What's that?" snapped a voice from within; and immediately its
owner appeared in the doorway and bored with narrowed black eyes
the young woman in the machine.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: two former occasions, and, as the erection of the house might
now be considered complete, there being nothing wanted
externally, excepting some of the storm-shutters for the
defence of the windows, he was the more anxious at this time
to inspect it. Two well-manned boats were therefore ordered
to be in attendance; and, after some difficulty, the wind
being at N.N.E., they got safely into the western creek,
though not without encountering plentiful sprays. It would
have been impossible to have attempted a landing to-day, under
any other circumstances than with boats perfectly adapted to
the purpose, and with seamen who knew every ledge of the rock,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and then he prepared to get down to business, for Tarzan
of the Apes was hungry, and here was meat; meat of the kill,
which jungle ethics permitted him to eat.
How may we judge him, by what standards, this ape-man
with the heart and head and body of an English gentleman,
and the training of a wild beast?
Tublat, whom he had hated and who had hated him, he
had killed in a fair fight, and yet never had the thought of
eating Tublat's flesh entered his head. It could have been as
revolting to him as is cannibalism to us.
But who was Kulonga that he might not be eaten as fairly
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