| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: my heart to you about anything."
Forthwith she proceeded to tell him about Oolanga and his strange
suspicions of her honesty. Caswall laughed and made her explain all
the details. His final comment was enlightening.
"Let me give you a word of advice: If you have the slightest fault
to find with that infernal nigger, shoot him at sight. A swelled-
headed nigger, with a bee in his bonnet, is one of the worst
difficulties in the world to deal with. So better make a clean job
of it, and wipe him out at once!"
"But what about the law, Mr. Caswall?"
"Oh, the law doesn't concern itself much about dead niggers. A few
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: legendary lays or the memorials of old traditions. The poet will
not attempt to people the universe with supernatural beings in
whom his readers and his own fancy have ceased to believe; nor
will he present virtues and vices in the mask of frigid
personification, which are better received under their own
features. All these resources fail him; but Man remains, and the
poet needs no more. The destinies of mankind - man himself, taken
aloof from his age and his country, and standing in the presence
of Nature and of God, with his passions, his doubts, his rare
prosperities, and inconceivable wretchedness - will become the
chief, if not the sole theme of poetry amongst these nations.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: claims.
Lieutenant Butzow, the American's best friend, had no
more suspected the exchange of identities. Von der Tann,
too, must have been deceived. Everyone had been deceived.
There was no hope that the people, who really saw so little
of their king, would guess the deception that was being
played upon them. Leopold groaned. Barney opened his eyes
and turned toward him.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"I will sign the release and the sanction of her highness'
marriage to you," said the king.
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