| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: After Butzow and one of the troopers had washed and
dressed the wounds of both men Barney asked them to leave
the room.
"I wish to sleep," he said. "If I require you I will ring."
Saluting, the two backed from the apartment. Just as
they were passing through the doorway the American called
out to Butzow.
"You have Peter of Blentz and Maenck in custody?" he
asked.
"I regret having to report to your majesty," replied the
officer, "that both must have escaped. A thorough search of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: desk, and say in cold blood, 'Cut off a head at four o'clock! Destroy
one of God's creatures full of life, health, and strength!'--And yet
this is my duty! Sunk in grief myself, I must order the scaffold----
"The condemned wretch cannot know that his judge suffers anguish equal
to his own. At this moment he and I, linked by a sheet of paper--I,
society avenging itself; he, the crime to be avenged--embody the same
duty seen from two sides; we are two lives joined for the moment by
the sword of the law.
"Who pities the judge's deep sorrow? Who can soothe it? Our glory is
to bury it in the depth of our heart. The priest with his life given
to God, the soldier with a thousand deaths for his country's sake,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: the house, to which you passed through three doors, opposite to
each other, in the manner of a vista. We went through the second
room towards the third. Here the gray walked in first, beckoning
me to attend: I waited in the second room, and got ready my
presents for the master and mistress of the house; they were two
knives, three bracelets of false pearls, a small looking-glass,
and a bead necklace. The horse neighed three or four times, and
I waited to hear some answers in a human voice, but I heard no
other returns than in the same dialect, only one or two a little
shriller than his. I began to think that this house must belong
to some person of great note among them, because there appeared
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