| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: settled down and looked at me. Hiram looked at me. Jim looked at me, and
not one of them said a word for what seemed a long time. It brought the
blood to my face. But for all my embarrassment it was sweet praise. At last
Dick broke the silence.
"Ken Ward, this stumps me I . . . Tell us about it."
So I related my adventures from the moment they had left me till we met
again.
"It was a wild boy's trick, Ken--that ride in the very face of fire in a
dry forest. But, thank God, you saved the lives of those fellows." "Amen!"
exclaimed old Hiram, fervently. "My lad, you saved Penetier, too; thar's no
doubt on it. The fire was sweepin' up the canyon, an' it would have crossed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds,
And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.
II
Dusk
The city's street, a roaring blackened stream
Walled in by granite, thro' whose thousand eyes
A thousand yellow lights begin to gleam,
And over all the pale untroubled skies.
III
Rain at Night
The street-lamps shine in a yellow line
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: For the next month Professor Maxon was busy educating
Number Thirteen. He found the young man intelligent
far beyond his most sanguine hopes, so that the
progress made was little short of uncanny.
Von Horn during this time continued to urge upon
Virginia the necessity for a prompt and favorable
decision in the matter of his proposal; but when it
came time to face the issue squarely the girl found it
impossible to accede to his request--she thought that
she loved him, but somehow she dared not say the word
that would make her his for life.
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