| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: skins their tusks stand out in a most striking manner, making
these weapons present a singularly formidable appearance.
Most of these details I noted later, for I was given but little
time to speculate on the wonders of my new discovery. I had
seen that the eggs were in the process of hatching, and as I
stood watching the hideous little monsters break from their
shells I failed to note the approach of a score of full-grown
Martians from behind me.
Coming, as they did, over the soft and soundless moss,
which covers practically the entire surface of Mars with the
exception of the frozen areas at the poles and the scattered
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: imposed silence for a moment even on Richard himself, who, to
judge by his looks, would willingly have interrupted her.
"My lord," she said, "this good knight, whose blood you are about
to spill, hath done, in his time, service to Christendom. He has
fallen from his duty through a snare set for him in mere folly
and idleness of spirit. A message sent to him in the name of one
who--why should I not speak it?--it was in my own--induced him
for an instant to leave his post. And what knight in the
Christian camp might not have thus far transgressed at command of
a maiden, who, poor howsoever in other qualities, hath yet the
blood of Plantagenet in her veins?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it
contained all the violence of voluptuousness.
No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring
his meagre supper.
This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour.
But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not
perceive that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on
the hearth lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot,
projecting from the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma,
who said to Eponine, "Look! sister."
The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared
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