| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: man, only one human, I should be saved from my
dreaming, that I should be surrounded no more by
haunting terrors. This thought obsessed me every night
of my life for years--if only I could find that one
human and be saved!
I must iterate that I had this thought in the midst of
my dreaming, and I take it as an evidence of the
merging of my two personalities, as evidence of a point
of contact between the two disassociated parts of me.
My dream personality lived in the long ago, before ever
man, as we know him, came to be; and my other and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: stood by and watched him walk round the stake on the red-hot coals five
hours."
Isaac shuddered at the words of the renegade, but did not answer. He had felt
from the first that his case was hopeless, and that no opportunity for escape
could possibly present itself in such a large encampment. He set his teeth
hard and resolved to show the red devils how a white man could die.
Several speeches were made by different chiefs and then an impressive oration
by Big Tree. At the conclusion of the speeches, which were in an unknown
tongue to Isaac, Cornplanter handed a war-club to Half Town. This chief got
up, walked to the end of the circle, and there brought the club down on the
ground with a resounding thud. Then he passed the club to Big Tree. In a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: by a craving for human flesh. He met a little orphan girl,
about nine years old, and giving her a pinchbeck ring told her
to seek for others like it under a tree in the neighbouring
wood. She was slain, carried to the beggar's hovel, and eaten.
In the course of three years thirteen other children
mysteriously disappeared, but no one knew whom to suspect. At
last an innkeeper missed a pair of ducks, and having no good
opinion of this beggar's honesty, went unexpectedly to his
cabin, burst suddenly in at the door, and to his horror found
him in the act of hiding under his cloak a severed head; a
bowl of fresh blood stood under the oven, and pieces of a
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