| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: of the gas, at an average distance of more than an inch from the
magnetic axis, is about equal to the gravitating force of the same
amount of oxygen as expressed by its weight.
These facts could not rest for an instant in the mind of Faraday
without receiving that expansion to which I have already referred.
'It is hardly necessary,' he writes, 'for me to say here that this
oxygen cannot exist in the atmosphere exerting such a remarkable and
high amount of magnetic force, without having a most important
influence on the disposition of the magnetism of the earth, as a
planet; especially if it be remembered that its magnetic condition
is greatly altered by variations of its density and by variations of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: Dame Tirechair's apprentices, shone like the woodwork of a shrine.
Instead of stools, the lodgers had deep chairs of carved walnut, the
spoils probably of some raided castle. Two chests with pewter
mouldings, and tables on twisted legs, completed the fittings, worthy
of the most fastidious knights-banneret whom business might bring to
Paris.
The windows of those two rooms looked out on the river. From one you
could only see the shores of the Seine, and the three barren islands,
of which two were subsequently joined together to form the Ile Saint-
Louis; the third was the Ile de Louviers. From the other could be
seen, down a vista of the Port-Saint-Landry, the buildings on the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: head split from ear to ear, showing his three rows of tusks
in his hobgoblin smile.
Quieting him with a word of command and a caress, I
looked hurriedly through the approaching gloom for a sign
of Dejah Thoris, and then, not seeing her, I called her name.
There was an answering murmur from the far corner of the
apartment, and with a couple of quick strides I was standing
beside her where she crouched among the furs and silks
upon an ancient carved wooden seat. As I waited she rose
to her full height and looking me straight in the eye said:
"What would Dotar Sojat, Thark, of Dejah Thoris his captive?"
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