| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: had fed privily, through the village to call assembly. And the
tribe gathered on a great space of beaten snow before my door, with
the meat caches towering stilt-legged in the rear. Moosu came
also, standing on the inner edge of the circle opposite me,
confident that I had some scheme afoot, and prepared at the first
break to down me. But I arose, giving him salutation before all
men.
"'O Moosu, thou blessed of God,' I began, 'doubtless thou hast
wondered in that I have called this convocation together; and
doubtless, because of my many foolishnesses, art thou prepared for
rash sayings and rash doings. Not so. It has been said, that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: blacks gave out, and along the trail of death was strewn the
camp equipage and the horse trappings of a hundred men.
"For some reason the Arab chief favored me to the last,
possibly with the idea that of all his other treasures I could
be most easily transported, for I was young and strong and after
the horses were killed I had walked and kept up with the best
of the men. We English, you know, are great walkers, while
these Arabians had never walked since they were old enough
to ride a horse.
"I cannot tell you how much longer we kept on but at last,
with our strength almost gone, a handful of us reached the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: he was persistent, he would hit upon the right combination
of questions, the right suggestion that would disentangle
Maria's confused recollections. Maria would tell him where
the thing was kept, was concealed, was buried, and he would
go to that place and secure it, and all that wonderful gold
would be his forever and forever. This service of plate had
come to be Zerkow's mania.
On this particular evening, about a week after the
child's burial, in the wretched back room of the Junk shop,
Zerkow had made Maria sit down to the table opposite him--
the whiskey bottle and the red glass tumbler with its broken
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