| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: are safe."
"David! Can it be possible that you escaped?" And the old
man stumbled toward me and threw his arms about me.
He had seen me fall before the dyryth, and then he had been
seized by a number of the ape-creatures and borne through
the tree tops to their village. His captors had been
as inquisitive as to his strange clothing as had mine,
with the same result. As we looked at each other we
could not help but laugh.
"With a tail, David," remarked Perry, "you would make
a very handsome ape."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: yawned, and would not get out of his way. The dog snapped at them
till his jaws were tired; but Tom hardly minded them at all, he was
so eager to get to the top of the water, and see the pool where the
good whales go.
And a very large pool it was, miles and miles across, though the
air was so clear that the ice cliffs on the opposite side looked as
if they were close at hand. All round it the ice cliffs rose, in
walls and spires and battlements, and caves and bridges, and
stories and galleries, in which the ice-fairies live, and drive
away the storms and clouds, that Mother Carey's pool may lie calm
from year's end to year's end. And the sun acted policeman, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: courtier, told him what he had seen in his dream
and what doubts the dream had left in his mind.
"That is a noble idea. It proves the rare
nobility of your spirit," said the old man. "But
forgive me for speaking frankly--you are too
kind to be an emperor, and you exaggerate your
responsibility. In the first place, the state of
things is not as you imagine it to be. The people
are not poor. They are well-to-do. Those who
are poor are poor through their own fault. Only
the guilty are punished, and if an unavoidable
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