| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Turjun, the panthan, was the last to clamber over the rail
of the Thuria, drawing the rope ladder in after him.
A moment later the flier was rising rapidly, headed for the north.
At the rail Kar Komak turned to speak to the warrior
who had been detailed to accompany him. His eyes went
wide as they rested upon the face of the young man
whom he had met beside the granite cliffs that guard
mysterious Lothar. How had he come in place of the Dusarian?
A quick sign, and Kar Komak turned once more to find
the Thuria's dwar that he might report himself for duty.
Behind him followed the panthan.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: things.
"'When I saw him he'd just won a bet of $10,000 with a Steel
Corporation man that there'd be four suicides in the Allegheny rolling
mills to-day. So everybody in sight had to walk up and have drinks on
him. He took a fancy to me and asked me to dinner with him. We went to
a restaurant in Diamond alley and sat on stools and had a sparkling
Moselle and clam chowder and apple fritters.
"'Then he wanted to show me his bachelor apartment on Liberty street.
He's got ten rooms over a fish market with privilege of the bath on
the next floor above. He told me it cost him $18,000 to furnish his
apartment, and I believe it.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: which they were deviously steering, was the first relief. To hear
Michael bespeak a private room was a second and a still greater.
Nor, as they mounted the stair under the guidance of an
unintelligible alien, did he fail to note with gratitude the
fewness of the persons present, or the still more cheering fact
that the greater part of these were exiles from the land of
France. It was thus a blessed thought that none of them would be
connected with the Seminary; for even the French professor,
though admittedly a Papist, he could scarce imagine frequenting
so rakish an establishment.
The alien introduced them into a small bare room with a single
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