| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: work when you get up by the Sixty Mile, but you have the best
boatmen in the world, and will get through all right. Will you
say good-by?"
Though she already had herself in hand, she looked at him
hopelessly. "If--if--if Winapie should--" She quavered and
stopped.
But he grasped the unspoken thought, and answered, "Yes." Then
struck with the enormity of it, "It cannot be conceived. There is
no likelihood. It must not be entertained."
"Kiss me," she whispered, her face lighting. Then she turned and
went away.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "He won't care."
"Come here, Thuran," said Clayton, turning toward the Russian.
"We'll have something worse than death aboard us if we don't
get rid of this body before dark."
Wilson staggered up menacingly to prevent the contemplated act,
but when his comrade, Spider, took sides with Clayton and
Monsieur Thuran he gave up, and sat eying the corpse
hungrily as the three men, by combining their efforts,
succeeded in rolling it overboard.
All the balance of the day Wilson sat glaring at Clayton,
in his eyes the gleam of insanity. Toward evening, as the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: or their household stories. We are therefore driven to the
conclusion--which, startling as it may seem, is after all the
most natural and plausible one that can be stated--that the
Aryan nations, which have inherited from a common ancestral
stock their languages and their customs, have inherited also
from the same common original their fireside legends. They
have preserved Cinderella and Punchkin just as they have
preserved the words for father and mother, ten and twenty; and
the former case, though more imposing to the imagination, is
scientifically no less intelligible than the latter.
Thirdly, it has been shown that these venerable tales may be
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