| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: make an objectionable joke of it, and how another of his comrades
had taken his part, which led to a closer friendship between
them. How successful the whole of that hunting expedition had
been, and how happy he had felt when returning to the railway
station that night. The line of sledges, the horses in tandem,
glide quickly along the narrow road that lies through the forest,
now between high trees, now between low firs weighed down by the
snow, caked in heavy lumps on their branches. A red light flashes
in the dark, some one lights an aromatic cigarette. Joseph, a
bear driver, keeps running from sledge to sledge, up to his knees
in snow, and while putting things to rights he speaks about the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: outclassed my adversary in agility and generally in strength
as well, it proved but child's play to me. Time and time again
I won the applause of the bloodthirsty multitude, and toward
the end there were cries that I be taken from the arena
and be made a member of the hordes of Warhoon.
Finally there were but three of us left, a great green warrior
of some far northern horde, Kantos Kan, and myself.
The other two were to battle and then I to fight the conqueror
for the liberty which was accorded the final winner.
Kantos Kan had fought several times during the day and
like myself had always proven victorious, but occasionally
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: intelligence that, two months after her condemnation, she
had been delivered of a child in her new prison. Its fatherhood
was never determined, and, taken from her mother, the child died
in fifteen days. Was its birth the result of some passing love
affair, or some act of drunken violence on the part of her
jailors, or had the wretched woman, fearing a sentence of death,
made an effort to avert once again the supreme penalty? History
does not relate.
Ten years passed. A fellow prisoner in the Salpetriere
described Mme. Derues as "scheming, malicious, capable of
anything." She was accused of being violent, and of wishing to
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