| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: we pleased, we would have sent in every city a warner. So obey not the
unbelievers and fight strenuously with them in many a strenuous fight.
He it is who has let loose the two seas, this one sweet and fresh,
that one bitter and pungent, and has made between them a rigorous
prohibition.
And He it is who has created man from water, and has made for him
blood relationship and marriage relationship; for thy Lord is mighty.
Yet they worship beside God what can neither profit them nor harm
them; but he who misbelieves in his Lord backs up (the devil).
We have only sent thee to give glad tidings and to warn. Say, 'I ask
you not for it a hire unless one please to take unto his Lord a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him ascend into this tower; and though there is but a single
exit, and that well guarded, no man has seen him pass out."
Tara of Helium hid a yawn with the back of a shapely hand. "The
Princess of Helium is hungry, fellow," she drawled; "tell your
master that she would eat."
It was an hour later that food was brought, an officer and
several warriors accompanying the bearer. The former examined the
room carefully, but there was no sign that aught amiss had
occurred there. The wound that had sent E-Med the dwar to his
ancestors had not bled, fortunately for Tara of Helium.
"Woman," cried the officer, turning upon Tara, "you were the last
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Emerald City he dashed along the road to the West with fast and violent
leaps that shook the breath out of the boy and filled the Scarecrow with
wonder.
Jack had ridden at this mad rate once before, so he devoted every effort to
holding, with both hands, his pumpkin head upon its stick, enduring meantime
the dreadful jolting with the courage of a philosopher.
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THE WOODEN STEED GAVE ONE FINAL LEAP
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"Slow him up! Slow him up!" shouted the Scarecrow. "My straw is all shaking
down into my legs."
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