| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: man. I asked God whether it was man or woman.
God said, "In the least Heaven sex reigns supreme; in the higher it is not
noticed; but in the highest it does not exist."
And I saw the figure bend over its work, and labour mightily, but what it
laboured at I could not see.
I said to God, "How came it here?"
God said, "By a bloody stair. Step by step it mounted from the lowest
Hell, and day by day as Hell grew farther and Heaven no nearer, it hung
alone between two worlds. Hour by hour in that bitter struggle its limbs
grew larger, till there fell from it rag by rag the garments which it
started with. Drops fell from its eyes as it strained them; each step it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: him any more. Anabela is now Mrs. Judson Tate. Has my story bored you
much?"
"No," said I. "I am always interested in psychological studies. A
human heart--and especially a woman's--is a wonderful thing to
contemplate."
"It is," said Judson Tate. "And so are the trachea and bronchial tubes
of man. And the larynx too. Did you ever make a study of the
windpipe?"
"Never," said I. "But I have taken much pleasure in your story. May I
ask after Mrs. Tate, and inquire of her present health and
whereabouts?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: now, in the face of what must have been a withering
catastrophe to them, they kept bravely on toward the
strange and terrible craft.
In them were fully two hundred men, while but
fifty lined the gunwale of the felucca to repel them.
The commander of the felucca, who proved to be Ja,
let them come quite close and then turned loose upon
them a volley of shots from small-arms.
The cave men and Sagoths in the dugouts seemed
to wither before that blast of death like dry grass
before a prairie fire. Those who were not hit dropped
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