| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: under the name of 'Orders.' There was no Napoleon, no Caesar to
embody enthusiasm. Barnet says, 'We talked of Them. THEY are
sending us up into Luxembourg. THEY are going to turn the
Central European right.'
Behind the veil of this vagueness the little group of more or
less worthy men which constituted Headquarters was beginning to
realise the enormity of the thing it was supposed to control....
In the great hall of the War Control, whose windows looked out
across the Seine to the Trocadero and the palaces of the western
quarter, a series of big-scale relief maps were laid out upon
tables to display the whole seat of war, and the staff-officers
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: rope and wooden clog likewise remove sufficient earth to let them both
be lightly buried. That done, place the foot-gin deep enough to be
just even with the surface of the soil,[28] and round the circle of
the crown the cord-noose. The cord itself and wooden clog must now be
lowered into their respective places. Which done, place on the crown
some rods of spindle-tree,[29] but not so as to stick out beyond the
outer rim; and above these again light leaves, such as the season may
provide. After this put a final coating of earth upon the leaves; in
the first place the surface soil from the holes just dug, and atop of
that some unbroken solid earth from a distance, so that the lie of the
trap may be as much as possible unnoticed by the deer. Any earth left
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: that. His faultless clothes, the ease with which he
commanded unlimited credit among the automobile
manufacturers and dealers--every supply store on
Broadway seemed to know him--left no doubt on that
score.
There was just a bit of mystery and reserve about
his career as an inventor. His first success that had
given him a start he had not explained. The big deal
about the new carburetor she could, of course,
understand. He had a workshop all his own. He had
told her this the first day they met. She would ask
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