| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: arm and looking up into my eyes, said:
"Why did you do it? You who refused me even friendly recognition
in the first hour of my peril! And now you risk your life and
kill one of your companions for my sake. I cannot understand.
What strange manner of man are you, that you consort with the
green men, though your form is that of my race, while your color
is little darker than that of the white ape? Tell me, are you
human, or are you more than human?"
"It is a strange tale," I replied, "too long to attempt to tell
you now, and one which I so much doubt the credibility of myself
that I fear to hope that others will believe it. Suffice it,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: disturbances of an electrical nature were set up, with the result
that wireless communication between the travelling dirigible and
the ground below was rendered extremely uncertain. In fact, it
has never yet been possible to communicate over distances
exceeding about 150 miles. Apart from this defect, the danger of
operating the wireless is obvious, and it is generally believed
in technical circles that the majority of the Zeppelin disasters
from fire have been directly attributable to this, especially
those disasters which have occurred when the vessel has suddenly
exploded before coming into contact with terrestrial
obstructions.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: Say, kid, you haven't got a couple of pennies that've slipped down
into the lining of your last winter's sealskin, have you?
I could step down to the corner and get one at old Giuseppe's stand.
A stew without an onion is worse'n a matinee without candy."
"You may call me Cecilia," said the artist. "No; I spent my last
penny three days ago."
"Then we'll have to cut the onion out instead of slicing it in," said
Hetty. "I'd ask the janitress for one, but I don't want 'em hep just
yet to the fact that I'm pounding the asphalt for another job. But I
wish we did have an onion."
In the shop-girl's room the two began to prepare their supper.
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