| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: would not avail to cure, and another by a fall from a lofty cedar
tree, which he climbed searching for a kite's nest. Thus of the
three of them--since I do not speak now of that infant, my
firstborn, who perished in the siege--there remained to me only the
eldest and best beloved of whom I must tell hereafter.
For the rest, jointly with Otomie I was named cacique of the City
of Pines at a great council that was held after I had destroyed the
Spaniards and their allies, and as such we had wide though not
absolute power. By the exercise of this power, in the end I
succeeded in abolishing the horrible rites of human sacrifice,
though, because of this, a large number of the outlying tribes fell
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: shall happen unto us according to the word of the Lord; `for,'
saith he, `when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man' (to wit,
by the grace of baptism) `he walketh through dry places, seeking
rest, and finding none.' But enduring not for long to wander
homeless and hearthless, he saith, `I will return to my house
whence I came out.' And, when he cometh, he findeth it swept and
garnished, but empty and unoccupied, not having received the
operation of grace, nor having filled itself with the riches of
the virtues. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other
spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in and dwell
there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: Bill looked interested and pleased. Grub as scarce, and they were
not over-plentifully supplied for the quest after Too Much Gold.
"Flour's worth a dollar a pound," he answered. "How like do you
calculate to get your finger on it?"
"Trade 'm a half-interest in that claim of ourn," Kink answered.
"What claim?" Bill was surprised. Then he remembered the
reservation he had staked off for the Swedes, and said, "Oh!"
"I wouldn't be so clost about it, though," he added. "Give 'm the
whole thing while you're about it, in a right free-handed way."
Bill shook his head. "If I did, he'd get clean scairt and prance
off. I'm lettin' on as how the ground is believed to be valuable,
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