| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: of people opposite her. Hewet crawled up to her on his knees,
with a piece of bread in his hand.
"What are you looking at?" he asked.
She was a little startled, but answered directly, "Human beings."
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One after another they rose and stretched themselves, and in a few
minutes divided more or less into two separate parties. One of these
parties was dominated by Hughling Elliot and Mrs. Thornbury, who,
having both read the same books and considered the same questions,
were now anxious to name the places beneath them and to hang upon them
stores of information about navies and armies, political parties,
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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: Behind me was Perry.
I shouted to him in warning, and then I raised my
rifle and fired into the broad breast of the creature.
There was no time to take aim; the thing was too close
upon me.
But that my bullet took effect was evident from the
howl of rage and pain that broke from the frothing
jowls. It didn't stop him, though.
I fired again, and then he was upon me. Down I went
beneath his ton of maddened, clawing flesh and bone
and sinew.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: Again the bishop had a twinge of misgiving.
But in the end he succumbed. He didn't want to take the stuff,
but also he did not want to go without his promised comfort.
Presently Dale had given him a little phial--and was holding
up to the window a small medicine glass into which he was pouring
very carefully twenty drops of the precious fluid. "Take it
only," he said, "when you feel you must."
"It is the most golden of liquids," said the bishop, peering at
it.
"When you want more I will make you more. Later of course, it
will be possible to write a prescription. Now add the water--
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