| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: pitiful wail at so great distance, could not have interpreted it;
but to Meriem it meant a species of terror that afflicts the
ruminant when a carnivore is near and escape impossible.
It had been both a pleasure and a sport of Korak's to rob Numa
of his prey whenever possible, and Meriem too had often enjoyed
in the thrill of snatching some dainty morsel almost from the
very jaws of the king of beasts. Now, at the sound of the kid's
bleat, all the well remembered thrills recurred. Instantly she
was all excitement to play again the game of hide and seek with death.
Quickly she loosened her riding skirt and tossed it aside--it
was a heavy handicap to successful travel in the trees. Her boots
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: for the common benefit; and lastly, the produce of the island,
animal and vegetable, which with proper economy might be made
to last for a considerable period.
In the course of the conversation, Count Timascheff took
an opportunity of saying that, as Captain Servadac had already
been presented to the Spaniards as governor of the island,
he thought it advisable that he should really assume that position.
"Every body of men," he observed, "must have a head, and you,
as a Frenchman, should, I think, take the command of this
fragment of a French colony. My men, I can answer for it,
are quite prepared to recognize you as their superior officer."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: spires of Thran. And just at the hour of dusk he came to the southern
gate, and was stopped by a red-robed sentry till he had told three
dreams beyond belief, and proved himself a dreamer worthy to walk
up Thran's steep mysterious streets and linger in the bazaars
where the wares of the ornate galleons were sold. Then into that
incredible city he walked; through a wall so thick that the gate
was a tunnel, and thereafter amidst curved and undulant ways winding
deep and narrow between the heavenward towers. Lights shone through
grated and balconied windows, and,the sound of lutes and pipes
stole timid from inner courts where marble fountains bubbled.
Carter knew his way, and edged down through darker streets to
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