| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "Follow any orders you had given me before that time. If you had
not given any, I would use my best judgment."
"I'll give them now," smiled Bucky. "If I'm lagged, make straight
for Arizona and tell Webb Mackenzie or Val Collins."
"Then you will take me?" cried the boy eagerly.
"Only on condition that you obey orders explicitly. I'm running
this cutting-out expedition."
"I wouldn't think of disobeying."
"And I don't want you to tell me any lies."
"No."
Bucky's big brown fist caught the little one and squeezed it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: sourly assent and turned away my head.
"Aye. But do you remember every word?" he
insisted tactfully.
"I don't know. It's none of my business," I
snapped out, consigning, moreover, the Steward
and Hamilton aloud to eternal perdition.
I meant to be very energetic and final, but
Captain Giles continued to gaze at me thought-
fully. Nothing could stop him. He went on to
point out that my personality was involved in
that conversation. When I tried to preserve the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: upheaved the waters. But unless the beast had been born in the lake
and had there grown to its gigantic proportions unsuspected, which
was scarce possible, he must have come there from outside. Lake
Kirdall, however, has no connection with any other waters. If this
lake were situated near any of the oceans, there might be
subterranean canals; but in the center of America, and at the height
of some thousands of feet above sea-level, this is not possible. In
short, here is another riddle not easy to solve, and it is much
easier to point out the impossibility of false explanations, than to
discover the true one.
"Is it possible that a submarine boat is being experimented with
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