| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: their mounts. Hastening to his damaged machine we were
bending every effort to finish the needed repairs and had
almost completed them when we saw the two green monsters
returning at top speed from opposite sides of us. When
they had approached within a hundred yards their thoats
again became unmanageable and absolutely refused to advance
further toward the air craft which had frightened them.
The warriors finally dismounted and hobbling their animals
advanced toward us on foot with drawn long-swords.
I advanced to meet the larger, telling the Zodangan to do
the best he could with the other. Finishing my man with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: direst consequences, and I shall do my duty before I leave this world by
informing it of its peril. Do you, John, as my last request, make this public.
Do not be frightened. The fate of humanity rests in your hand. Let the press
strike off millions of copies; let the electric currents sweep it round the
world; wherever men meet and speak, let them speak of it in fear and
trembling. And then, when thoroughly aroused, let society arise in its might
and cast out this abomination.
Yours, in long farewell,
WADE ATSHELER.
THE SHADOW AND THE FLASH
WHEN I look back, I realize what a peculiar friendship it was. First, there
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Upon the beach, we skinned the deer and cut away as much
meat as we thought we could dispose of, and as we were again
embarking to continue up the river for fresh water and fuel,
we were startled by a series of screams from the bushes a
short distance away.
"Another Felis tigris," said Taylor.
"Or a dozen of them," supplemented Delcarte, and, even as he
spoke, there leaped into sight, one after another, eight of
the beasts, full grown--magnificent specimens.
At the sight of us, they came charging down like infuriated
demons. I saw that three rifles would be no match for them,
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