| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: non-appearance, to say nothing of your own, you may make it #50."
"You are very moderate in your demands," he said as he handed me
the cheque which I put in my pocket, reflecting that it would
just pay for my son's operation.
"And you are very foolish in your offers," I replied. "Tell me,
why do you make such crack-brained arrangements?"
"I don't quite know. Something in me seems to say that we
_shall_ make this expedition and that it will have a very
important effect upon my life. Mind you, it is to be to the
Lydenburg district and nowhere else. And now I am tired, so
let's turn in."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: moment even the thought of Evelina's happiness refused her its
consolatory ray; or its light, if she saw it, was too remote to
warm her. The thirst for a personal and inalienable tie, for pangs
and problems of her own, was parching Ann Eliza's soul: it seemed
to her that she could never again gather strength to look her
loneliness in the face.
The trivial obligations of the moment came to her aid. Nursed
in idleness her grief would have mastered her; but the needs of the
shop and the back room, and the preparations for Evelina's
marriage, kept the tyrant under.
Miss Mellins, true to her anticipations, had been called on to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Dejah Thoris also, she will prove her sincerity in the only way
that lies open--having saved you for another, Phaidor leaves you
to her embraces."
With her last word she turned and leaped from the vessel's
deck into the abyss below.
With a cry of horror I sprang forward in a vain attempt to
save the life that for two years I would so gladly have seen
extinguished. I was too late.
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