| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: window, till all that quarter of the city seemed to stare up at
them from a thousand ruddy eyes. The windows seemed infinite in
number, the streets endless in their complications: yet everything
was deserted. At this hour the streets were empty, and would
remain so until daylight. Not a soul was stirring; no face looked
from any of those myriads of glowing windows; no footfall
disturbed the silence of those asphalt streets. There, almost
within call behind those windows, shut off from those empty
streets, a thousand human lives were teeming, each the centre of
its own circle of thoughts and words and actions; and yet the
solitude was profound, the desolation complete. the stillness
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
the material needs as well as the spiritual needs of the people he went to,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: the window.
"You are making him nervous, sir" he said to Muller in a tone that
was almost harsh.
"You can leave that to me," answered the detective calmly. "And
you will please place yourself behind Mr. Varna's chair, not behind
mine. It is your eyes that are making him uneasy."
The attendant was alarmed and lost control of himself for a moment.
"Sir!" he exclaimed in an outburst.
"My name is Muller, in case you do not know it already, Joseph
Muller, detective. Gyuri Kovacz, you will do what I tell you to!
I am master here just now. Is it not so, doctor?"
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