| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Custer's arm as it closed about her. At the same instant
Barney closed the throttle, and threw all the weight of his
body upon the foot brake.
The gray roadster swerved toward the embankment as the
hind wheels skidded on the loose surface gravel. They were
at the turn. The horse was just abreast the bumper. There
was one chance in a thousand of making the turn were
the running beast out of the way. There was still a chance if
he turned ahead of them. If he did not turn--Barney hated
to think of what must follow.
But it was all over in a second. The horse bolted straight
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: apparently as indifferent to punishment as a man cast in iron.
Add to this a happy and complete disregard of consequences--to
himself or others--of anything he did, and, in his own words, he was
a "hard man to nick."
As yet the season was too early for much joy along Hell's Half-Mile.
Orde's little crew, and the forty or fifty men of the drive that had
preceded him, constituted the rank and file at that moment in town.
A little later, when all the drives on the river should be in, and
those of its tributaries, and the men still lingering at the woods
camps, at least five hundred woods-weary men would be turned loose.
Then Hell's Half-Mile would awaken in earnest from its hibernation.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: place.
Well, a couple of hours afterwards, just as the sun was sinking, who
should walk up to my wagons but Saduko himself, accompanied by a woman
whom I recognised at once as his wife, the Princess Nandie, who carried
a fine baby boy in her arms. Rising, I saluted Nandie and offered her
my camp-stool, which she looked at suspiciously and declined, preferring
to seat herself on the ground after the native fashion. So I took it
back again, and after I had sat down on it, not before, stretched out my
hand to Saduko, who by this time was quite humble and polite.
Well, we talked away, and by degrees, without seeming too much
interested in them, I was furnished with a list of all the advancements
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