| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: something in him made him accept that slim chance.
Waiting then became a physical and mental agony. He lay under
the burning sun, parched by thirst, laboring to breathe,
sweating and bleeding. His uncared-for wound was like a red-hot
prong in his flesh. Blotched and swollen from the never-ending
attack of flies and mosquitoes his face seemed twice its
natural size, and it ached and stung.
On one side, then, was this physical torture; on the other the
old hell, terribly augmented at this crisis, in his mind. It
seemed that thought and imagination had never been so swift. If
death found him presently, how would it come? Would he get
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: chosen to be good, she could not afterwards be evil. But the
great experiences of life which generally come in more mature
years, had been forced upon her while still a child; and nobly
and truly had she taken up and borne the burden imposed upon her.
As a child she had done the duties of the full-grown woman, and
she had done them well. She had been faithful to herself.
Providence kindly ordains that the child shall serve a long
apprenticeship before it is called upon to think and act for
itself. Katy had anticipated the period of maturity, and with the
untried soul of a child, had been compelled to grapple with its
duties and its temptations. As her opportunities to be good and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: "Party of Anarchy," of Socialism, of Communism. They claimed to have
"saved" society against the "enemies of society." They gave out the
slogans of the old social order--"Property, Family, Religion, Order"--as
the pass-words for their army, and cried out to the
counter-revolutionary crusaders: "In this sign thou wilt conquer!" From
that moment on, so soon as any of the numerous parties, which had
marshaled themselves under this sign against the June insurgents, tries,
in turn, to take the revolutionary field in the interest of its own
class, it goes down in its turn before the cry: "Property, Family,
Religion, Order." Thus it happens that "society is saved" as often as
the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive
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