| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: eyes met she saw in his a truth and honesty and cleanness
which revealed what Theriere might have been had Fate
ordained his young manhood to different channels. And in
that moment a question sprang, all unbidden and unforeseen
to her mind; a question which caused her to withdraw her
hand quickly from his, and which sent a slow crimson to her
cheek.
Billy Byrne, slouching by, cast a bitter look of hatred upon
the two. The fact that he had saved Theriere's life had not
increased his love for that gentleman. He was still much
puzzled to account for the strange idiocy that had prompted
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: side. When she was up, she bent down and kissed him. No words were
exchanged. Maskull scrambled up on to the front part of the raft.
The woman sat cross-legged in the stem, and seized the pole.
Polecrab shoved them off toward the current, while she worked her
pole until they had got within its power. The raft immediately began
to travel swiftly away from land, with a smooth, swaying motion.
The boys waved from the shore. Gleameil responded; but Maskull
turned his back squarely to land, and gazed ahead. Polecrab was
wading back to the shore.
For upward of an hour Maskull did not change his position by an inch.
No sound was heard but the splashing of the strange waves all around
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: neighbours hardly knew of the important event. After the birth of the
royal child, he is tended, not by a good-for-nothing woman-nurse, but by
the best of the royal eunuchs, who are charged with the care of him, and
especially with the fashioning and right formation of his limbs, in order
that he may be as shapely as possible; which being their calling, they are
held in great honour. And when the young prince is seven years old he is
put upon a horse and taken to the riding-masters, and begins to go out
hunting. And at fourteen years of age he is handed over to the royal
schoolmasters, as they are termed: these are four chosen men, reputed to
be the best among the Persians of a certain age; and one of them is the
wisest, another the justest, a third the most temperate, and a fourth the
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