| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: He did not appear to see it.
"And here is a great deal of work about a Campbell!" said he.
"They are not so scarce, that I ken!"
"At least," said I, "you cannot justly blame me, for you know
very well what you told me in the brig. But the temptation and
the act are different, I thank God again for that. We may all be
tempted; but to take a life in cold blood, Alan!" And I could
say no more for the moment. "And do you know who did it?" I
added. "Do you know that man in the black coat?"
"I have nae clear mind about his coat," said Alan cunningly, "but
it sticks in my head that it was blue."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: With a hollow brass ball, moreover, he produced the effects obtained
by Mr. Barlow. Iron was in no way necessary: the only condition of
success was that the rotating body should be of a character to admit
of the formation of currents in its substance: it must, in other
words, be a conductor of electricity. The higher the conducting
power the more copious were the currents. He now passes from his
little brass globe to the globe of the earth. He plays like a
magician with the earth's magnetism. He sees the invisible lines
along which its magnetic action is exerted, and sweeping his wand
across these lines evokes this new power. Placing a simple loop of
wire round a magnetic needle he bends its upper portion to the west:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rapidly and worked quickly. First they removed all his weapons
and then, snapping a fetter about one of the rykor's ankles,
secured him to the end of one of the chains hanging from the
walls. Next they dragged the long table to a new position and
there bolted it to the floor so that an end, instead of the
middle, was directly before the prisoner. On the table before him
they set food and water and upon the opposite end of the table
they laid the key to the fetter. Then they unlocked and opened
all the doors and departed.
When Turan the panthan regained consciousness it was to the
realization of a sharp pain in one of his forearms. The effects
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