| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: But she would soon know, for she was rapidly approaching
the terrified animal. She wondered as she hastened onward that
the sounds continued to come from the same point. Why did the
kid not run away? And then she came in sight of the little
animal and knew. The kid was tethered to a stake beside
the waterhole.
Meriem paused in the branches of a near-by tree and scanned
the surrounding clearing with quick, penetrating eyes. Where was
the hunter? Bwana and his people did not hunt thus. Who could
have tethered this poor little beast as a lure to Numa?
Bwana never countenanced such acts in his country and his word
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: Nature, Life, Will, or God - that was so frantic to rush forward and
occupy this small, vulgar, contemptible world, could not possess very
high aims and was not worth much. How this sordid struggle for an
hour or two of physical existence could ever be regarded as a deeply
earnest and important business was beyond his comprehension The
atmosphere choked him, he longed for air and space. Thrusting his
way through to the side of the ravine, he began to climb the
overhanging cliff, swinging his way up from tree to tree.
When he arrived at the top, Branchspell beat down on him with such
brutal, white intensity that he saw that there was no staying there.
He looked around, to ascertain what part of the country he had come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: estimating the extent of the damage which he has sustained.
Arrived at the tent, he threw himself, without speech of any
kind, upon a couch of dressed buffalo's hide, which was pointed
out to him by his conductor, and hiding his face betwixt his
hands, groaned heavily, as if his heart were on the point of
bursting. The physician heard him, as he was giving orders to
his numerous domestics to prepare for their departure the next
morning before daybreak, and, moved with compassion, interrupted
his occupation to sit down, cross-legged, by the side of his
couch, and administer comfort according to the Oriental manner.
"My friend," he said, "be of good comfort; for what saith the
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