| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: urged his creatures after the retreating enemy.
As the last of them disappeared behind the promontory,
Carthoris turned toward Thuvia of Ptarth.
"They have taught me a lesson, these vanishing bowmen
of Lothar," he said. "When they have served their
purpose they remain not to embarrass their masters by
their presence. Kulan Tith and his warriors are here
to protect you. My acts have constituted the proof of
my honesty of purpose. Good-bye," and he knelt at her
feet, raising a bit of her harness to his lips.
The girl reached out a hand and laid it upon the thick black
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: pleased simplicity.
'Because you won't compromise,' said the lawyer. 'You're deep
dog, Morris, very deep dog, not t' compromise--remarkable deep
dog. And a very good glass of wine; it's the only respectable
feature in the Finsbury family, this wine; rarer thing than a
title--much rarer. Now a man with glass wine like this in cellar,
I wonder why won't compromise?'
'Well, YOU wouldn't compromise before, you know,' said the
smiling Morris. 'Turn about is fair play.'
'I wonder why _I_ wouldn' compromise? I wonder why YOU wouldn'?'
enquired Michael. 'I wonder why we each think the other wouldn'?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: yourself, Jane!"
I set up straight then, fur Jane was the perfessor's
wife's first name.
"You mean suppose YOU get it," she says. I
like to of seen the look she must of give him to
fit in with the way she says that YOU. He didn't
say nothing, the man didn't; and then her voice
softens down some, and she says, low and slow:
"Henry, wouldn't you love me if I DID get it?
Suppose it marked and pitted me all up?"
"Oh, of course," he says, "of course I would.
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