| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: brother for the man who led her away on weary trails to a bitter
end. And, further, such was this woman's love, she denied
herself. Ere her eyes closed for the last time she took my hand
and slipped it under her squirrel-skin parka to her waist. I felt
there a well-filled pouch, and learned the secret of her lost
strength. Day by day we had shared fair, to the last least bit;
and day by day but half her share had she eaten. The other half
had gone into the well-filled pouch.
"And she said: 'This is the end of the trail for Passuk; but your
trail, Charley, leads on and on, over the great Chilcoot, down to
Haines Mission and the sea. And it leads on and on, by the light
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: the minds of the Women were violently agitated. Sympathy with
the miserable victim and anticipations of similar deceptions
for themselves, their sisters, and their daughters, made them
now regard the Colour Bill in an entirely new aspect.
Not a few openly avowed themselves converted to antagonism;
the rest needed only a slight stimulus to make a similar avowal.
Seizing this favourable opportunity, the Circles hastily convened
an extraordinary Assembly of the States; and besides the usual
guard of Convicts, they secured the attendance of a large number
of reactionary Women.
Amidst an unprecedented concourse, the Chief Circle of those days
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: Her efforts might still be directed to Philip sober.
"I sent for you to congratulate you," she answered, with a smile.
"You are a bigger man than I thought. You have done what you said
you would do, and I presume you can very shortly go out of
mourning."
He radiated vanity, seemed to visibly expand "Do y'u go in when I
go out?" he asked brutally.
She laughed lightly. "Hardly. But it does seem as if I'm unlucky
in my foremen. They all seem to have engagements across the
divide."
"I'll get y u another."
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