| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
"You need not more than step from this room for an instant
when I give you the signal. I will do the rest, and then, when I
am gone, you may come and throw the great switch back into its place,
and all will be as before. I need but an hour's start to be safe
beyond the devilish power that you control in this hidden chamber
beneath the palace of your master. See how easy," and with
the words the black dator rose from his seat and, crossing the
room, laid his hand upon a large, burnished lever that protruded
from the opposite wall.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: There are monstrous things connected with this business."
"My husband will tell the Keeper of the Seals all he knows for his own
justification, for they wanted to save Lucien, and he, Madame la
Marquise, did his duty. An examining judge always has to question
people in private at the time fixed by law! He had to ask the poor
little wretch something, if only for form's sake, and the young fellow
did not understand, and confessed things----"
"He was an impertinent fool!" said Madame d'Espard in a hard tone.
The judge's wife kept silence on hearing this sentence.
"Though we failed in the matter of the Commission in Lunacy, it was
not Camusot's fault, I shall never forget that," said the Marquise
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: him well."
THE CAPTAIN: "He was in my company. A troublesome
scoundrel. I remember him well."
THE SERGEANT: "Did I know him? As well as I know you.
Why, every morning I used to--" etc., etc.; a glad, long story,
told to devouring ears.
THE LANDLADY: "Many's the time he boarded with me. I can
show you his very room, and the very bed he slept in. And the
charcoal mark there on the wall--he made that. My little Johnny
saw him do it with his own eyes. Didn't you, Johnny?"
It is easy to see, by the papers, that the magistrate and
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