| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: appear superhumanly strong. That is to say,
they added brain to their brawn, and it is a
difficult question whether their efforts deserve
to be called trickery or good showmanship.
Many of the tricks of the profession were
laid bare by Dr. Desaguliers over a hundred
and fifty years ago and have been generally
discarded by athletes, only to be taken up and
vastly improved by women of the type of The
Georgia Magnet, who gave the world of science
a decided start about a generation ago. I shall
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: Honore. During the winter, she haunts the terrace of the Feuillants,
but not the asphalt pavement that lies parallel. According to the
weather, she may be seen flying in the Avenue of the Champs-Elysees,
which is bounded on the east by the Place Louis XV., on the west by
the Avenue de Marigny, to the south by the road, to the north by the
gardens of the Faubourg Saint-Honore. Never is this pretty variety of
woman to be seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue Saint-Denis,
never in the Kamtschatka of miry, narrow, commercial streets, never
anywhere in bad weather. These flowers of Paris, blooming only in
Oriental weather, perfume the highways; and after five o'clock fold up
like morning-glory flowers. The women you will see later, looking a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: handed. It was a stretch of a hundred miles to the Recorder's
office, and it was planned that the two favorites should have four
relays of dogs stationed along the trail. Naturally, the last
relay was to be the crucial one, and for these twenty-five miles
their respective partisans strove to obtain the strongest possible
animals. So bitter did the factions wax, and so high did they
bid, that dogs brought stiffer prices than ever before in the
annals of the country. And, as it chanced, this scramble for dogs
turned the public eye still more searchingly upon Joy Molineau.
Not only was she the cause of it all, but she possessed the finest
sled-dog from Chilkoot to Bering Sea. As wheel or leader, Wolf
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