| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: time he returned. Target stood well to be saddled, nor did he bolt when I
climbed up. Perhaps that ride I gave him had chastened and subdued his
spirit. Well, it had nearly killed me. Herky mounted the one horse left, a
sorry-looking pack-pony, and we started down the ravine.
An hour of steady descent passed by before we caught sight of any burned
forest land. Then as we descended into the big canyon we turned a curve and
saw, far ahead to the left, a black, smoky, hideous slope. We kept to the
right side of the brook and sheered off just as we reached a point
opposite, where the burned line began. Fire had run up that side till
checked by bare weathered slopes and cliffs. As far down the brook as eye
could see through the smoky haze there stretched that black line of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: tongue. If not, no wedding gift!'
" 'Rosalie,' said Madame de Merret, 'come and brush my hair.'
"Her husband quietly walked up and down the room, keeping an eye on
the door, on the mason, and on his wife, but without any insulting
display of suspicion. Gorenflot could not help making some noise.
Madame de Merret seized a moment when he was unloading some bricks,
and when her husband was at the other end of the room to say to
Rosalie: 'My dear child, I will give you a thousand francs a year if
only you will tell Gorenflot to leave a crack at the bottom.' Then she
added aloud quite coolly: 'You had better help him.'
"Monsieur and Madame de Merret were silent all the time while
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: in chemistry last week, an explosion
took place which entirely bewildered his
faculties and left him in a condition
bordering on the grave. He was blown into
a thousand atoms. It took place on
Wednesday of last week and some accounts
state that it grew out of an experiment
with phosphoric ether, others that it was
by a too liberal indulgence in Prussic acid,
an article which, from its resemblance to
the peach, he was remarkably fond of having
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