| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: 'It is hardly necessary,' he writes, 'for me to say here that this
oxygen cannot exist in the atmosphere exerting such a remarkable and
high amount of magnetic force, without having a most important
influence on the disposition of the magnetism of the earth, as a
planet; especially if it be remembered that its magnetic condition
is greatly altered by variations of its density and by variations of
its temperature. I think I see here the real cause of many of the
variations of that force, which have been, and are now so carefully
watched on different parts of the surface of the globe. The daily
variation, and the annual variation, both seem likely to come under
it; also very many of the irregular continual variations, which the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: action, he responded with lightning-like rapidity. Quickly as a
husky dog could leap to defend from attack or to attack, he could
leap twice as quickly. He saw the movement, or heard sound, and
responded in less time than another dog required to compass the
mere seeing or hearing. He perceived and determined and responded
in the same instant. In point of fact the three actions of
perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential; but so
infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they
appeared simultaneous. His muscles were surcharged with vitality,
and snapped into play sharply, like steel springs. Life streamed
through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: committed by that dear creature, to whom I devote myself. She is my
niece; in spite of the impotence of my art, I hope some day to restore
her reason by attempting a method which can only be employed,
unfortunately, by very rich people."
Then, like all persons living in solitude who are afflicted with an
ever present and ever renewed grief, he related to the marquis at
length the following narrative, which is here condensed, and relieved
of the many digressions made by both the narrator and the listener.
CHAPTER II
THE PASSAGE OF THE BERESINA
Marechal Victor, when he started, about nine at night, from the
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