| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: shoulders, so that it hung down over her white robes, and on her
breast that splendid necklace of emeralds which Guatemoc had given
to me in the treasure chamber, and which she had preserved safely
through all our evil fortune, and a golden girdle about her waist.
In her hand also she took a little sceptre of ebony tipped with
gold, that was in the palace, with other ornaments and emblems of
rank, and thus attired, though she was worn with travel and
suffering, and grief had dimmed her beauty for a while, she seemed
the queenliest woman that my eyes have seen. Next she caused me to
be laid upon my rude litter, and when the hour of noon was come,
she commanded those soldiers who had borne me across the mountains
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: In the tender morning light
All around lay strange and bright
And still and sweet,
And the gray doves unafraid
Went their morning promenade
Along the street.
THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY
THIS gloomy northern day,
Or this yet gloomier night,
Has moved a something high
In my cold heart; and I,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: done upon Lake Erie?
I pushed upon the hatchway: it opened. I came half way out upon the
deck.
All about was sky and sea. We floated in the air above an ocean, at a
height which I judged to be about a thousand or twelve hundred feet.
I could not see Robur, so he was probably in the engine room. Turner
was at the helm, his companion on the look-out.
Now that I was upon the deck, I saw what I had not been able to see
during our former nocturnal voyage, the action of those powerful
wings which beat upon either side at the same time that the screws
spun beneath the flanks of the machine.
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