| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: an antelope, fierce and terrible in his devilish action, a horse for
war and blood and death. He seemed unbeatable. Yet to see the
magnificently running Blanco Sol was but to court a doubt. Gale
stood spellbound. He might have shot the raider; but he never
thought of such a thing. The distance swiftly lessened. Plain it
was the raider could not make the opening ahead of Ladd. He saw it
and swerved to the left, emptying his six-shooter as he turned.
His dark face gleamed as he flashed by Gale.
Blanco Sol thundered across. Then the race became straight away
up the valley. Diablo was cold and Sol was hot; therein lay the
only handicap and vantage. It was a fleet, beautiful, magnificent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: I suspect she and her mother are really as thick as thieves, eh?
You are well out of it, my boy; make up your mind to that.
If I express myself strongly it is all because I love you so much;
and from that point of view I may say I should as soon have thought
of making up to that piece of pale high-mightiness as I should have
thought of making up to the Obelisk in the Place des la Concorde."
Newman sat gazing at Tristram during this harangue with a lack-lustre eye;
never yet had he seemed to himself to have outgrown so completely the phase
of equal comradeship with Tom Tristram. Mrs. Tristram's glance at her husband
had more of a spark; she turned to Newman with a slightly lurid smile.
"You must at least do justice," she said, "to the felicity with which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: Phone: (219) 481-2123 Fax: (219) 481-2126
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``Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum.''
by Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546
D. MARTIN LUTHERS WERKE: KRITISCHE GESAMMTAUSGABE.
1. Band (Weimar: Hermann Boehlau, 1883). pp. 233-238.
PW #001-001La
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