| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: there is no Mahar but eats human flesh whenever she can get it."
"Why should they object to eating human flesh," I asked,
"if it is true that they look upon us as lower animals?"
"It is not because they consider us their equals that they are
supposed to look with abhorrence upon those who eat our flesh,"
replied Ja; "it is merely that we are warm-blooded animals.
They would not think of eating the meat of a thag, which we
consider such a delicacy, any more than I would think
of eating a snake. As a matter of fact it is difficult
to explain just why this sentiment should exist among them."
"I wonder if they left a single victim," I remarked,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: we should have set out in the morning, were obliged to a fierce
dispute with the old Moor, who had not yet lost his inclination to
destroy us; he would have had us taken a road which was full of
those people we were so much afraid of: at length finding he could
not prevail with us, that we charged the goods upon him as belonging
to the Emperor, to whom he should be answerable for the loss of
them, he consented, in a sullen way, to go with us.
The desire of getting out of the reach of the Galles made us press
forward with great expedition, and, indeed, fear having entirely
engrossed our minds, we were perhaps less sensible of all our
labours and difficulties; so violent an apprehension of one danger
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: MRS WARREN. Well, Vivie, what did you go away like that for
without saying a word to me! How could you do such a thing! And
what have you done to poor George? I wanted him to come with me;
but he shuffled out of it. I could see that he was quite afraid
of you. Only fancy: he wanted me not to come. As if [trembling]
I should be afraid of you, dearie. [Vivie's gravity deepens].
But of course I told him it was all settled and comfortable
between us, and that we were on the best of terms. [She breaks
down]. Vivie: whats the meaning of this? [She produces a
commercial envelope, and fumbles at the enclosure with trembling
fingers]. I got it from the bank this morning.
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