| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the mother of my boy, Carthoris of Helium.
The race of blacks that for ages had worshiped Issus, the
false deity of Mars, had been left in a state of chaos by my
revealment of her as naught more than a wicked old woman.
In their rage they had torn her to pieces.
From the high pinnacle of their egotism the First Born had
been plunged to the depths of humiliation. Their deity was gone,
and with her the whole false fabric of their religion. Their
vaunted navy had fallen in defeat before the superior ships and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: to Boxtel the real value of the object enclosed in it.
This object could not be anything else but the second bulb,
that is to say, the quintessence of all the hopes of the
prisoner.
When the nights threatened to be too cold, Rosa took in the
flower-pot.
Well, it was then quite evident she was following the
instructions of Cornelius, who was afraid of the bulb being
killed by frost.
When the sun became too hot, Rosa likewise took in the pot
from eleven in the morning until two in the afternoon.
The Black Tulip |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and that quickly."
There was no fear in her voice. It was as one might say:
"You had better carry an umbrella. It is going to rain."
I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a
moment too soon. The girl had swooned.
The black, too, was unconscious, while I, myself, retained
my senses, I think, only by sheer will. The one on whom all
responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.
We were swinging along low above the foothills of the
Otz. It was comparatively warm and there was plenty of air
for our starved lungs, so I was not surprised to see the
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