| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: slightest sign of pier or abutment.
Rounding the base of a large pile of grass-covered debris,
we came suddenly upon the best preserved ruin we had yet
discovered. The entire lower story and part of the second
story of what must once have been a splendid public building
rose from a great knoll of shrubbery and trees, while ivy,
thick and luxuriant, clambered upward to the summit of the
broken walls.
In many places the gray stone was still exposed, its
smoothly chiseled face pitted with the scars of battle. The
massive portal yawned, somber and sorrowful, before us,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: The struggle of this writer, risen from the lower classes, had cost
him the ten first years of his youth; and now in the days of his
success he longed to be loved by one of the queens of the great world.
Vanity, without which, as Champfort says, love would be but a feeble
thing, sustained his passion and increased it day by day.
"Can you swear to me," said Marie, "that you belong and will never
belong to any other woman?"
"There is neither time in my life nor place in my heart for any other
woman," replied Raoul, not thinking that he told a lie, so little did
he value Florine.
"I believe you," she said.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: YOU mean?"
But she shrugged her shoulders and peered I through the dim light
at the Indian girl, who had lighted the fire and was frying great
chunks of moose meat, alternated with thin ribbons of bacon.
"Did you stop in Dawson long?" The man was whittling a stave of
birchwood into a rude axe-handle, and asked the question without
raising his head.
"Oh, a few days," she answered, following the girl with her eyes,
and hardly hearing. "What were you saying? In Dawson? A month,
in fact, and glad to get away. The arctic male is elemental, you
know, and somewhat strenuous in his feelings."
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