The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: great bow of yours. Did you bring it with you or did you fashion
it here? They tell me, Teule, that there is no such archer in the
land.'
So I came up and showed him the bow which was of my own make, and
would shoot an arrow some sixty paces further than any that I saw
in Anahuac, and we fell into talk on matters of sport and war,
Marina helping out my want of language, and before that day was
done we had grown friendly.
For a week the prince Guatemoc and his company rested in the town
of Tobasco, and all this time we three talked much together. Soon
I saw that Marina looked with eyes of longing on the great lord,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: agitating effect of this crystal ring my companion had continued:
"Hasn't there ever been any face that you've wanted to look into?"
How could I tell her so soon how much I appreciated the opportunity
of looking into hers? I could only assent in general to the
proposition that there were certainly for every one such yearnings,
and even such faces; and I felt the crisis demand all my lucidity,
all my wisdom. "Oh yes, I'm a student of physiognomy. Do you
mean," I pursued, "that you've a passion for Mr. Paraday's books?"
"They've been everything to me and a little more beside - I know
them by heart. They've completely taken hold of me. There's no
author about whom I'm in such a state as I'm in about Neil
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: in your sins.
CO1 15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are
perished.
CO1 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.
CO1 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them that slept.
CO1 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the
resurrection of the dead.
CO1 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive.
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