| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAINS
LEAVES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN
FRANCISCO
MONDAY. - It was, if I remember rightly, five o'clock when we were
all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An
emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night,
another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a
fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday
a great part of the passengers from these four ships was
concentrated on the train by which I was to travel. There was a
babel of bewildered men, women, and children. The wretched little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Xenophon another. The first, at least, had ample means of
information. Astyages is the old shah of the Median Empire, then at
the height of its seeming might and splendour and effeminacy. He
has married his daughter, the Princess Mandane, to Cambyses,
seemingly a vassal-king or prince of the pure Persian blood. One
night the old man is troubled with a dream. He sees a vine spring
from his daughter, which overshadows all Asia. He sends for the
Magi to interpret; and they tell him that Mandane will have a son
who will reign in his stead. Having sons of his own, and fearing
for the succession, he sends for Mandane, and, when her child is
born, gives it to Harpagus, one of his courtiers, to be slain. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: character was most amenable to strong impressions,
that the policy of the mighty outlaw was in many re-
spects pure and lofty. It was this same influence,
though, which won for Father Claude his only enemy
in Torn; the little, grim, gray, old man whose sole aim
in life seemed to have been to smother every finer
instinct of chivalry and manhood in the boy, to whose
training he had devoted the past nineteen years of
his life.
As Father Claude climbed down from his donkey--
fat people do not "dismount"--a half dozen young
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