| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "Why not?" said Jack, "I wouldn't run from a man, as you know; but
a woman--it's not natural, like. They must be witches or devils.
See how the Caribs feared them. And there were men there without
necks, and with their eyes in their breasts, they said. Now how
could a Christian tackle such customers as them?"
"He couldn't cut off their heads, that's certain; but, I suppose, a
poke in the ribs will do as much for them as for their neighbors."
"Well," said Jack, "if I fight, let me fight honest flesh and
blood, that's all, and none of these outlandish monsters. How do
you know but that they are invulnerable by art-magic?"
"How do you know that they are? And as for the Amazons," said
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: tion, and
"O, deep was the anguish of that slave mother's heart,
When called from her darlings for ever to part;
The poor mourning mother of reason bereft,
Soon ended her sorrows, and sank cold in death."
Antoinette, the flower of the family, a girl who
was much beloved by all who knew her, for her
Christ-like piety, dignity of manner, as well as her
great talents and extreme beauty, was bought by
an uneducated and drunken salve-dealer.
I cannot give a more correct description of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: since the highest flood (which was caused, in all probability,
by the proximity of the body of which the huge disc had
been so conspicuous on the night of the 31st of December)
the phenomenon had been gradually lessening, and in fact was
now reduced to the normal limits which had characterized it
before the convulsion.
Without doing more than note the circumstance, Servadac turned his
entire attention to the _Dobryna_, which, now little more than a mile
from shore, could not fail to see and understand his signals.
Slightly changing her course, she first struck her mainsail,
and, in order to facilitate the movements of her helmsman,
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