| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: No trace, however, of the squirrel could be discovered. The truth
at last became apparent-- the cat had eaten its fellow-traveler!
J. T. Maston grieved much for the loss of his poor squirrel, and
proposed to add its case to that of other martyrs to science.
After this experiment all hesitation, all fear disappeared.
Besides, Barbicane's plans would ensure greater perfection for
his projectile, and go far to annihilate altogether the effects
of the shock. Nothing now remained but to go!
Two days later Michel Ardan received a message from the
President of the United States, an honor of which he showed
himself especially sensible.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: less than a quarter of that sum, and although we could still make both
ends meet fairly well in some place where you wouldn't want to live, like
Philadelphia, in New York we should drop into a pinched and dwarfed
obscurity."
"I must say now, and I shall never forget, that Ethel during these gloomy
weeks behaved much better than I did. The grayer the outlook became, the
more words of hope and sense she seemed to find She reminded me that,
after all my Uncle Godfrey's legacy had been a thing unlooked for,
something out of my scheme of life that I had my youth, my salary and my
writing; and that she would wait till she was as old at Mr. Beverly's
mother."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: welfare of the state; that their evil counsels, and specially those
of the Jesuits, had been patent and potent causes of much of the
misrule and misery of Louis XIV.'s and XV.'s reigns; and that with
all these heavy counts against them, their morality was not such as
to make other men more moral; and was not--at least among the
hierarchy--improving, or likely to improve. To a Mazarin, a De
Retz, a Richelieu (questionable men enough) had succeeded a Dubois,
a Rohan, a Lomenie de Brienne, a Maury, a Talleyrand; and at the
revolution of 1789 thoughtful Frenchmen asked, once and for all,
what was to be done with a Church of which these were the
hierophants?
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