| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: savior of my country. I rid her of all Americanos."
"Nix on the captain stuff fer me, then," said Billy, firmly.
"That guy's a right one. If any big stiff thinks he can croak
little ol' Bridge while Billy Byrne's aroun' he's got anudder
t'ink comin'. Why, me an' him's just like brudders."
"You like this gringo?" asked Pesita.
"You bet," cried Billy.
Pesita thought for several minutes. In his mind was a
scheme which required the help of just such an individual as
this stranger--someone who was utterly unknown in the surrounding
country and whose presence in a town could not by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: in which he was none of these things, but a quite different person-
-"the Count." There were several friends for whom he was William.
There were several for whom, in allusion perhaps to his complexion,
he was "the Pink 'Un." Once, once only by good luck, he had,
coinciding comically, quite miraculously, with another person also
near to her, been "Mudge." Yes, whatever he was, it was a part of
his happiness--whatever he was and probably whatever he wasn't.
And his happiness was a part--it became so little by little--of
something that, almost from the first of her being at Cocker's, had
been deeply with the girl.
CHAPTER V
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the ether,--questions with which our present purpose does not
require us to meddle. Apart from such questions it is every way
probable that the primary assumption of Helmholtz and Thomson is
only an approximation to the truth. But if we accredit the
primordial fluid with even an infinitesimal amount of friction,
then we are required to conceive of the visible universe as
developed from the invisible and as destined to return into the
invisible. The vortex-atom, produced by infinitesimal friction
operating through wellnigh infinite time, is to be ultimately
abolished by the agency which produced it. In the words of our
authors, "If the visible universe be developed from an invisible
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