| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: his death he was engaged in writing his
biography (in French) and had it nearly
ready for publication.
Here follows a supposedly humorous speech
in broken English, quoted from the London
Lancet, in which the Doctor is satirized.
Continuing, the articles says:
``The Doctor was what was termed a
`fast liver,' and at the time of his death
he kept a drug store in Grand Street, and
had very little of this world's goods. He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: Mire; her hand flung the rose to the matador, while the eight
thousand excited spectators seemed uncertain whether they were
applauding her or him. Lima was hers, and never have I seen a
fortnight so crowded with incidents.
But Le Mire soon tired of it, as was to be expected. She
greeted me one morning at the breakfast table:
"My friend Paul, let us go to Cerro de Pasco. They have
silver--thousands and thousands of tons--and what you call them?
Ornaments."
"And then the Andes?" I suggested.
"Why not?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: bring you each one a wife, and will give you a heritage of
your own and a house builded near to me, and ye twain shall
be thereafter in mine eyes as the brethren and companions
of Telemachus. But behold, I will likewise show you a most
manifest token, that ye may know me well and be certified
in heart, even the wound that the boar dealt me with his
white tusk long ago, when I went to Parnassus with the sons
of Autolycus.'
Therewith he drew aside the rags from the great scar. And
when the twain had beheld it and marked it well, they cast
their arms about the wise Odysseus, and fell a weeping; and
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