| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: affair that I had had in my mind against the possibility
of our meeting with a check at the entrances to the
underground city.
Under my direction he stuffed one of his cannon full
of powder, small bullets, and pieces of stone, almost to
the muzzle. Then he plugged the muzzle tight with a
cone-shaped block of wood, hammered and jammed in
as tight as it could be. Next he inserted a long fuse. A
dozen men rolled the cannon to the top of the stairs
leading down into the city, first removing it from its
carriage. One of them then lit the fuse and the whole
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: of rending cloth, and followed by several pots, he dropped
upon the sod. Once more the bell was rung, and now with
furious and repeated peals. The desperate Challoner turned
his eyes on every side. They fell upon the ladder, and he
ran to it, and with strenuous but unavailing effort sought to
raise it from the ground. Suddenly the weight, which was
thus resisting his whole strength, began to lighten in his
hands; the ladder, like a thing of life, reared its bulk from
off the sod; and Challoner, leaping back with a cry of almost
superstitious terror, beheld the whole structure mount, foot
by foot, against the face of the retaining wall. At the same
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: prettiest places in the world, Marilla."
It was. Other people besides Anne thought so when they stumbled
on it. It was a little narrow, twisting path, winding down over
a long hill straight through Mr. Bell's woods, where the light
came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as
flawless as the heart of a diamond. It was fringed in all its
length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed;
ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet
tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there
was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and
the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead. Now
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