| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: become aware of man's presence by telepathy.* Perhaps he was the
one exception to the whole race, and was a good-natured rhino.
*Opposing theories are those of "instinct," and of slight causes,
such a grasshoppers leaping before the hunter's feet, not noticed
by the man approaching.
The babies are astonishing and amusing creatures, with blunt
noses on which the horns are just beginning to form, and with
even fewer manners than their parents. The mere fact of an
800-pound baby does not cease to be curious. They are truculent
little creatures, and sometimes rather hard to avoid when they
get on the warpath. Generally, as far as my observation goes, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: its passage through the church walls, Hester Prynne listened with
such intenseness, and sympathized so intimately, that the sermon
had throughout a meaning for her, entirely apart from its
indistinguishable
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: this automobile?"
"There is something of the sort, Mr. Ward."
"Well, is it not possible that the two are one?"
Chapter 6
THE FIRST LETTER
After leaving Mr. Ward I returned to my home in Long Street. There I
had plenty of time to consider this strange case uninterrupted by
either wife or children. My household consisted solely of an ancient
servant, who having been formerly in the service of my mother, had
now continued for fifteen years in mine.
Two months before I had obtained a leave of absence. It had still two
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