| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: sand at our feet. ``He conceives it thus. Here to the north
is Cuba, stretching westward how far no man knoweth.
Here to the south is Paria that he found--no matter what
Ojeda and Nino and Cabral have done since!--stretching
westward how far no man knoweth, and between is a great
sea holding Jamaica and we do not know what other islands.
Cuba and Paria curving south and north and between them
where they shall come closest surely a strait into the sea
of Rich India!'' He drew Cuba and Paria approaching
each the other until there was space between like the space
from the horn of Spain to the horn of Africa. ``Rich
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: She drew away from him with passionate suddenness.
"Are you afraid?"
This certainly was not the Nell Burton that Gale knew.
"No, I'm not afraid," Gale replied, a little nettled.
"Will you go--for my sake?" Like lightning her mood changed
and she was close to him again, hands on his, her face white,
her whole presence sweetly alluring.
"Nell, I won't disobey Belding," protested Gale. "I won't break
my word."
"Dick, it'll not be so bad as that. But--what if it is?...Go,
Dick, if not for poor Mercedes's sake, then for mine--to please
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: thick-set with dark close curling hair and a ruddy Irish type of
face; I was lean and fair-haired and some inches taller than he.
Our talk ranged widely and yet had certain very definite
limitations. We were amazingly free with politics and religion, we
went to that little meeting-house of William Morris's at Hammersmith
and worked out the principles of Socialism pretty thoroughly, and we
got up the Darwinian theory with the help of Britten's medical-
student brother and the galleries of the Natural History Museum in
Cromwell Road. Those wonderful cases on the ground floor
illustrating mimicry, dimorphism and so forth, were new in our
times, and we went through them with earnest industry and tried over
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