| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: head, and, with the heavy hilt, I shattered the glass of the
great window and sprang into the midst of the astonished
assemblage. With a bound I was on the steps of the platform
beside Than Kosis, and as he stood riveted with surprise
I brought my long-sword down upon the golden chain
that would have bound Dejah Thoris to another.
In an instant all was confusion; a thousand drawn swords
menaced me from every quarter, and Sab Than sprang upon
me with a jeweled dagger he had drawn from his nuptial
ornaments. I could have killed him as easily as I might a
fly, but the age-old custom of Barsoom stayed my hand,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: very cautious, he possessed a most intrepid spirit, and, what
is more, never lost his head. Well, in the great battle of the
Pass, where he got the wound that finally killed him, one would
imagine from the account which he gives of the occurrence that
it was a chance blow that fell on him in the scrimmage. As a
matter of fact, however, he was wounded in a most gallant and
successful attempt to save Good's life, at the risk and, as it
ultimately turned out, at the cost of his own. Good was down
on the ground, and one of Nasta's highlanders was about to dispatch
him, when Quatermain threw himself on to his prostrate form and
received the blow on his own body, and then, rising, killed the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: this? My dear, it's all utterly wrong. The time is out of
joint- dislocated,"
"It isn't really, Peter."
I looked at her quickly. Her eyes were wide open now, and very
bright.
"You're right, lass," said I. "If one goes up a backwater, I
suppose one's got to come down again. Only-
"Only it's been a rather short backwater, hasn't it?"
"It has been very sunny, Peter."
A pause, then:
"It was sweet of you to say that," I said. "Thank you." But, as
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