| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: in gravel; while the iron in the gravel has stained them reddish,
which it would take hundreds and perhaps thousands of years to do.
There are little rough markings, too, upon some of them, which, if
you look at through a magnifying glass, are iron, crystallised
into the shape of little seaweeds and trees--another sign that
they are very very old. And what is more, near the place where
these flint flakes come from there are no flints in the ground for
hundreds of miles; so that men must have brought them there ages
and ages since. And to tell you plainly, these are scrapers such
as the Esquimaux in North America still use to scrape the flesh
off bones, and to clean the insides of skins.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: whipped under his foreleg to draw him down. Silvermane heaved a groan
which plainly said he never wanted to rise again. Swiftly the Indian
knelt on the stallion's head; his hands flashed; there was a scream, a
click of steel on bone; and proud Silvermane jumped to his feet with a
bit between his teeth.
The Navajo, firmly in the saddle, rose with him, and Silvermane leaped
through the corral gate, and out upon the stretch, lengthening out with
every stride, and settling into a wild, despairing burst of speed. The
white mane waved in the wind; the half-naked Navajo swayed to the motion.
Horse and rider disappeared in the cedars.
They were gone all day. Toward night they appeared on the stretch. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: the mongoose, Sir Nathaniel said: "Hullo! what have you got there?"
"A mongoose."
"What for?"
"To kill snakes!"
Sir Nathaniel laughed.
"I heard Lady Arabella's invitation to you to come to Diana's
Grove."
"Well, what on earth has that got to do with it?"
"Nothing directly that I know of. But we shall see." Adam waited,
and the old man went on: "Have you by any chance heard the other
name which was given long ago to that place."
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