| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: Stewart made a fierce and violent motion, terrible where his
other motions had been but passionate. Monty leaped straight up
into the air in a singular action as suggestive of surprise as it
was of wild acceptance of menace. Like a stalking giant Nick
Steele strode over to Nels and Stewart. The other cowboys rose
silently, without a word.
Madeline and her guests, in a little group, watched and listened,
unable to divine what all this strange talk and action meant.
"Hold on, Nels, they don't need to hear it," said Stewart,
hoarsely, as he waved a hand toward Madeline's silent group.
"Wal, I'm sorry, but I reckon they'd as well know fust as last.
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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: The climbing became still more laborious, and he was forced to stop
at every third or fourth step, to rest his muscles and regain breath.
When he had mounted another twenty stairs in this way, he came to a
second window. Again he saw nothing. The laughing disturbance of
the air, too, had ceased; but the atmospheric throb was now twice as
distinct as before, and its rhythm had become double. There were two
separate pulses; one was in the time of a march, the other in the
time of a waltz. The first was bitter and petrifying to feel, but
the second was gay, enervating, and horrible.
Nightspore spent little time at that window, for he felt that he was
on the eve of a great discovery, and that something far more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: also heard this sound. When the two reappeared I noticed that
though still quite calm, Yva looked radiant, and, if I may say
so, even more human and womanly than I had ever seen her, while
Bastin also seemed very happy.
"One has strange experiences in life, yes, very strange," he
remarked, apparently addressing the air, which left me wondering
to what particular experience he might refer. Well, I thought
that I could guess.
"Friends," said Yva, "it is time for us to be going and I am
your guide. You will meet the Lord Oro at the end of your
journey. I pray you to bring those lamps of yours with you, since
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