| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the foremost of the Okarians while we battled with the insensate
metal that stood between our fellows and freedom.
At length all but one of the prisoners were freed, and then
the door fell with a mighty crash before a hastily improvised
battering-ram, and the yellow horde was upon us.
"To the upper chambers!" shouted the red man who was still
fettered to the floor. "To the upper chambers! There you may
defend the tower against all Kadabra. Do not delay because of me,
who could pray for no better death than in the service of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: fellow's time. Say, listen to this! Talk about a eukelele!"
"A woman can never have both."
He played a while, struming with one finger until the hand sliped
off and stung him on the lip.
"Once," I said, "I dreamed of a Career. But I beleive love's the
most important."
Well, I shall pass lightly over what followed. Why is it that a
girl cannot speak of Love without every member of the Other Sex
present, no matter how young, thinking it is he? And as for mother
maintaining that I kissed that wreched Child, and they saw me from
the drawing-room, it is not true and never was true. It was but one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: and of the establishment, in the same city, of a university
of foreign teachers. He hoped, perhaps, to get the good of
other lands without their evil; to enable Japan to profit by
the knowledge of the barbarians, and still keep her inviolate
with her own arts and virtues. But whatever was the precise
nature of his hope, the means by which it was to be
accomplished were both difficult and obvious. Some one with
eyes and understanding must break through the official
cordon, escape into the new world, and study this other
civilisation on the spot. And who could be better suited for
the business? It was not without danger, but he was without
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