| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: knowledge of Spanish by conversing with those of the men
who remained awake, and asking innumerable questions. It
was almost sundown when Pesita rode in. Two riderless
horses were led by troopers in the rear of the little column
and three men swayed painfully in their saddles and their
clothing was stained with blood.
Evidently Pesita had met with resistance. There was much
voluble chattering on the part of those who had remained
behind in their endeavors to extract from their returning
comrades the details of the day's enterprise. By piecing
together the various scraps of conversation he could understand
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Eppingwell experienced a great relief on hearing this; Floyd
Vanderlip was safe up-creek, and ere the Greek girl could again
lay hands upon him, his bride would be on the ground. But that
afternoon her big St. Bernard, valiantly defending her front
stoop, was downed by a foraging party of trail-starved Malemutes.
He was buried beneath the hirsute mass for about thirty seconds,
when rescued by a couple of axes and as many stout men. Had he
remained down two minutes, the chances were large that he would
have been roughly apportioned and carried away in the respective
bellies of the attacking party; but as it was, it was a mere case
of neat and expeditious mangling. Sitka Charley came to repair
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: ancestors who went before us; and they praise ourselves also who are still
alive, until I feel quite elevated by their laudations, and I stand
listening to their words, Menexenus, and become enchanted by them, and all
in a moment I imagine myself to have become a greater and nobler and finer
man than I was before. And if, as often happens, there are any foreigners
who accompany me to the speech, I become suddenly conscious of having a
sort of triumph over them, and they seem to experience a corresponding
feeling of admiration at me, and at the greatness of the city, which
appears to them, when they are under the influence of the speaker, more
wonderful than ever. This consciousness of dignity lasts me more than
three days, and not until the fourth or fifth day do I come to my senses
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