| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the sleeper proclaimed the soundness of his slumber. Gin-
gerly the man placed one foot upon the floor. The eye glued
to the crack at the edge of the great, gilt frame of the
Blentz princess remained fastened upon him. He let his
other foot slip to the floor beside the first. Carefully he
raised himself until he stood erect upon the floor. Then, on
tiptoe he started across the room.
The eye in the dark followed him. The man reached the
side of the sleeper. Bending over he listened intently to the
other's breathing. Satisfied that slumber was profound he
stepped quickly to a wardrobe in which a soldier had hung
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: and threes, and left all sorts of offerings--there was enough grub for
Bingham's nine gods of war, with plenty left over for the Peace
Conference at The Hague. They brought jars of honey, and bunches of
bananas, and bottles of wine, and stacks of tortillas, and beautiful
shawls worth one hundred dollars apiece that the Indian women weave of
a kind of vegetable fibre like silk. All of 'em got down and wriggled
on the floor in front of that hard-finish god, and then sneaked off
through the woods again.
"'I wonder who gets this rake-off?' remarks High Jack.
"'Oh,' says I, 'there's priests or deputy idols or a committee of
disarrangements somewhere in the woods on the job. Wherever you find
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Judged, even, by thine own confession,
Thou art steeped in perfidy.
Having vanquished, thou wouldst leave me!
Thus I read thee long ago;
Therefore, dared I not deceive thee,
Even with friendship's gentle show.
Therefore, with impassive coldness
Have I ever met thy gaze;
Though, full oft, with daring boldness,
Thou thine eyes to mine didst raise.
Why that smile? Thou now art deeming
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