| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: marches from end to end and at its widest point about one march."
From his own experience and from what the natives on the mainland
had told him, Bradley knew that ten miles was a good day's march
in Caspak, owing to the fact that at most points it was a
trackless wilderness and at all times travelers were beset by
hideous beasts and reptiles that greatly impeded rapid progress.
The two had spoken rapidly but were now interrupted by the advent
through the opening in the roof of several Wieroos who had come
in answer to the alarm it of the yellow slashing had uttered.
"This jaal-lu," cried the offended one, "has threatened me.
Take its hatchet from it and make it fast where it can do no
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: of my own faults and virtues. I was born a hater of
injustice; from my most tender years my blood boiled against
heaven when I beheld the sick, and against men when I
witnessed the sorrows of the poor; the pauper's crust stuck
in my throat when I sat down to eat my dainties, and the
cripple child has set me weeping. What was there in that but
what was noble? and yet observe to what a fall these thoughts
have led me! Year after year this passion for the lost
besieged me closer. What hope was there in kings? what hope
in these well-feathered classes that now roll in money? I
had observed the course of history; I knew the burgess, our
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: Bruce or a Columbus, with a pliability that was all his own.
He did not fight for what the world would call success; but
for "the wages of going on." Check him off in a dozen
directions, he would find another outlet and break forth. He
missed one vessel after another, and the main work still
halted; but so long as he had a single Japanese to enlighten
and prepare for the better future, he could still feel that
he was working for Japan. Now, he had scarce returned from
Nangasaki, when he was sought out by a new inquirer, the most
promising of all. This was a common soldier, of the Hemming
class, a dyer by birth, who had heard vaguely (1) of
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