| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: commissioner's ear! A friend could not get within hail.
Just or unjust, every complaint came and squatted in a ring
around him. Maybe some were just--such as soldiers
not being able to get their pay, for instance. There was
never but one who lived without spot or blemish. But of
course we knew that the old Admiral wasn't really a tyrant,
cruel and a fool! Of course not. Carvajal's man was prepared
to fight any man of his own class who would say
that to his face! He'd fight, too, for the Adelantado. Don
Francisco de Bobadilla had no sooner landed than he began
to talk and act as though they were all villains. Don Diego
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: the victorious, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is
between the two, the mighty, the forgiving!'
Say, 'It is a grand story, and yet ye turn from it!' I had no
knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contended.
I am only inspired that I am a plain warner. When thy Lord said to
the angels, 'Verily, I am about to create a mortal out of clay; and
when I have fashioned him, and breathed into him of my spirit, then
fall ye down before him adoring.' And the angels adored all of them,
save Iblis, who was too big with pride, and was of the misbelievers.
Said He, 'O Iblis! what prevents thee from adoring what I have
created with my two hands? art thou too big with pride? or art thou
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: He caught the shine of a thin bracelet-band of gold under
the sleeve. A delicate, significant odor just hinted
its presence in the air about this outstretched arm--
something which was not a perfume, yet deserved as gracious
a name.
He rose to his feet, and took the proffered hand with a
deliberate gesture, as if he had been cautiously weighing
all the possible arguments for and against this momentous compact.
"I promise," he said gravely, and the two palms squeezed
themselves together in an earnest clasp.
"Right you are," exclaimed the lady, once more with
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