| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Atergatis the queen, and the undying fish of the sacred lake,
where Deucalion's deluge was swallowed up, and they burnt
their children before the Fire King, till Zeus was angry with
that foolish people, and brought a strange nation against
them out of Egypt, who fought against them and wasted them
utterly, and dwelt in their cities for many a hundred years.
PART V - HOW PERSEUS CAME HOME AGAIN
AND when a year was ended Perseus hired Phoenicians from
Tyre, and cut down cedars, and built himself a noble galley;
and painted its cheeks with vermilion, and pitched its sides
with pitch; and in it he put Andromeda, and all her dowry of
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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: fell through, and his instrument was broken.
The Muspel-light vanished. The moon shone out again, but Maskull
could not see it. After that unearthly shining, he seemed to himself
to be in total blackness. The screaming wind ceased; there was a
dead silence. His thoughts finished flowing toward the lake, and his
foot no longer touched water, but hung in space.
He was too stunned by the suddenness of the change to either think or
feel. While he was still lying dazed, a vast explosion occurred in
the newly opened depths beneath the lakebed. The water in its
descent had met fire. Maskull was lifted bodily in the air, many
yards high, and came down heavily. He lost consciousness....
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: had interrupted their first talk, and again, instinctively,
they drew apart at the sound. Without a word Darrow turned
back into the room, while Sophy Viner went down the steps
and walked back alone toward the court.
At luncheon the presence of the surgeon, and the non-
appearance of Madame de Chantelle--who had excused herself
on the plea of a headache--combined to shift the
conversational centre of gravity; and Darrow, under shelter
of the necessarily impersonal talk, had time to adjust his
disguise and to perceive that the others were engaged in the
same re-arrangement. It was the first time that he had seen
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