| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: martyrs' monument is a wholesome, heartsome spot in the
field of the dead; and as we look upon it, a brave
influence comes to us from the land of those who have won
their discharge and, in another phrase of Patrick
Walker's, got 'cleanly off the stage.'
CHAPTER VI.
NEW TOWN - TOWN AND COUNTRY.
IT is as much a matter of course to decry the New
Town as to exalt the Old; and the most celebrated
authorities have picked out this quarter as the very
emblem of what is condemnable in architecture. Much may
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "What have you there?" I asked.
"Do you recall that time you stepped upon the thing
you call viper in your world?" she asked.
I nodded.
"The accident gave you the idea for the poisoned
arrows with which we fitted the warriors of the em-
pire," she continued. "And, too, it gave me an idea.
For a long time I have carried a viper's fang in my
bosom. It has given me strength to endure many dan-
gers, for it has always assured me immunity from the
ultimate insult. I am not ready to die yet. First let
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: whilst above us the full moon shone in the heavens.
Here, with a prayer of thankfulness, we flung ourselves down
and slept.
If it had not been for Tommy and we had gone further along the
tunnel, which I have little doubt stretched on beneath the sea,
where, I wonder, should we have slept that night?
When we woke the sun was shining high in the heavens. Evidently
there had been rain towards the dawn, though as we were lying
beneath the shelter of some broad-leaved tree, from it we had
suffered little inconvenience. Oh! how beautiful, after our
sojourn in those unholy caves, were the sun and the sea and the
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