| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: viper to his breast and nurse it till it stings him.' Then he rose
and went in silence, and I saw that his heart was heavy.
On the morrow of this talk I could leave my bed, and within a week
I was almost well. Now it was that Guatemoc came to me again,
saying that he had been bidden by Cuitlahua the emperor, to command
me to accompany him, Guatemoc, on a service of trust and secrecy.
And indeed the nature of the service showed how great a confidence
the leaders of the Aztecs now placed in me, for it was none other
than the hiding away of the treasure that had been recaptured from
the Spaniards on the Night of Fear, and with it much more from the
secret stores of the empire.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: He'd never foist it as a part of his
Contingent entertainment of a townsman
While he goes off rehearsing, as he must,
If he shall ever be the Duke of Stratford.
And my words are no shadow on your town --
Far from it; for one town's as like another
As all are unlike London. Oh, he knows it, --
And there's the Stratford in him; he denies it,
And there's the Shakespeare in him. So, God help him!
I tell him he needs Greek; but neither God
Nor Greek will help him. Nothing will help that man.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: his big, merry laughs, and it startled the warriors and
made them nervous. Captain Buzzub's eyes grew big with
surprise as the three steadily advanced and forced his
men backward; nor was he free from terror himself at
the magic that protected these strange visitors. As for
the warriors, they presently became terror-stricken and
fled in a panic up the slope toward the city, and
Buzzub was obliged to chase after them and shout
threats of punishment before he could halt them and
form them into a line of battle.
All the men of Regos bore spears and bows-and-arrows,
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