| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: When we duly take all these things into the account, the case of
our solar system will appear as only one of a thousand cases of
evolution and dissolution with which the heavens furnish us.
Other stars, like our sun, have undoubtedly started as vaporous
masses, and have thrown off planets in contracting. The inference
may seem a bold one, but it after all involves no other
assumption than that of the continuity of natural phenomena. It
is not likely, therefore, that the solar system will forever be
left to itself. Stars which strongly gravitate toward each other,
while moving through a perennially resisting medium, must in time
be drawn together. The collision of our extinct sun with one of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: me, "Do you want any one at that house, sir?"
"Yes, I heard it was to be let."
"Let!--why, the woman who kept it is dead,--has been dead these
three weeks, and no one can be found to stay there, though Mr. J----
offered ever so much. He offered mother, who chars for him, one
pound a week just to open and shut the windows, and she would not."
"Would not!--and why?"
"The house is haunted; and the old woman who kept it was found dead
in her bed, with her eyes wide open. They say the devil strangled
her."
"Pooh! You speak of Mr. J----. Is he the owner of the house?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: heard a feeble cry, which I judged came from a human infant. I looked
about me and found, close to the forest, a helpless babe, lying quite
naked upon the grasses and wailing piteously. Not far away, screened
by the forest, crouched Shiegra, the lioness, intent upon devouring
the infant for her evening meal."
"And what did you do, Ak?" asked the Queen, breathlessly.
"Not much, being in a hurry to greet my nymphs. But I commanded
Shiegra to lie close to the babe, and to give it her milk to quiet its
hunger. And I told her to send word throughout the forest, to all
beasts and reptiles, that the child should not be harmed."
"I am glad you did thus," said the good Queen again, in a tone of
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