| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: remain fresh in her daily grind was the immense disparity, the
difference and contrast, from class to class, of every instant and
every motion. There were times when all the wires in the country
seemed to start from the little hole-and-corner where she plied for
a livelihood, and where, in the shuffle of feet, the flutter of
"forms," the straying of stamps and the ring of change over the
counter, the people she had fallen into the habit of remembering
and fitting together with others, and of having her theories and
interpretations of, kept up before her their long procession and
rotation. What twisted the knife in her vitals was the way the
profligate rich scattered about them, in extravagant chatter over
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: there broke from the jungle at the same spot at which I had
seen her, the hugest cat I had ever looked upon.
At first I took the beast for a saber-tooth tiger, as it was
quite the most fearsome-appearing beast one could imagine; but
it was not that dread monster of the past, though quite
formidable enough to satisfy the most fastidious thrill-hunter.
On it came, grim and terrible, its baleful eyes glaring above
its distended jaws, its lips curled in a frightful snarl which
exposed a whole mouthful of formidable teeth. At sight of me
it had abandoned its impetuous rush and was now sneaking slowly
toward us; while the girl, a long knife in her hand, took her
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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: making the iron hinges, and irons, shovels, tongs, fire
sets and iron work complete for a log bungalow of seven
rooms which he was building on the sunny slope of
the mountain which overlooks the valley toward
Asheville.
The Doctor had lent Jim the blue-prints of his own
home and he was quietly duplicating it with loving
care. His wife might refuse to see him but he could
build a home for their boy. For his sake she couldn't
refuse it.
With childlike obedience Nance followed him every
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