| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: were quite close, and the muzzles of our guns were at the
animal's head, I saw the explanation of this sudden
cessation of hostilities--Felis tigris was dead.
One of our bullets, or one of the last that Delcarte fired,
had penetrated the heart, and the beast had died even as it
sprawled forward crushing Delcarte to the ground.
A moment later, with our assistance, the man had scrambled
from beneath the carcass of his would-be slayer, without a
scratch to indicate how close to death he had been.
Delcarte's buoyance was entirely unruffled. He came from
under the tiger with a broad grin on his handsome face, nor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: because I'm all skin and bones. My arms and legs are the size of
broomsticks."
"Oh, well," I said, "you're just as well off without the
Hercules shape. You are always healthy."
"Healthy? What I call health, you fellows would regard as the
last stages of decrepitude. A little beer and tobacco knocks me
over. If I drank coffee and ate pie the way you do, I'd have to
take morphine to get a night's sleep. You fellows need never envy
us intellectuals. You can drink and smoke and eat anything, and
all the poisons you take in are sweated out of your pores in this
terrific labor, so that every night you come out as clean and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: united action, the impulse toward cooperation. In dim
ways this need for united action was impressed upon us.
But there was no way to achieve it because there was no
way to express it. We did not turn to, all of us, and
destroy Red-Eye, because we lacked a vocabulary. We
were vaguely thinking thoughts for which there were no
thought-symbols. These thought-symbols were yet to be
slowly and painfully invented.
We tried to freight sound with the vague thoughts that
flitted like shadows through our consciousness. The
Hairless One began to chatter loudly. By his noises he
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