| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: graze the tree tops. Another followed, and another, and then a flock of them.
He saw their gray, spotted breasts and hooked beaks.
"Buzzards," he muttered, darkly eyeing the dead savages. The carrion birds
were swooping to their feast.
"By God! He's nailed me fast for buzzards!" he screamed in sudden, awful
frenzy. "Nailed fast! Ah-h! Ah-h! Ah-h! Eaten alive by buzzards! Ah-h! Ah-h!
Ah-h!"
He shrieked until his voice failed, and then he gasped.
Again the buzzards swooped overhead, this time brushing the leaves. One, a
great grizzled bird, settled upon a limb of the giant oak, and stretched its
long neck. Another alighted beside him. Others sailed round and round the dead
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: to the extent of several millions of francs, the elder Cointet became
a deputy, and is at this day a peer of France. It is said that he will
be Minister of Commerce in the next Government; for in 1842 he married
Mlle. Popinot, daughter of M. Anselme Popinot, one of the most
influential statesmen of the dynasty, deputy and mayor of an
arrondissement in Paris.
David Sechard's discovery has been assimilated by the French
manufacturing world, as food is assimilated by a living body. Thanks
to the introduction of materials other than rags, France can produce
paper more cheaply than any other European country. Dutch paper, as
David foresaw, no longer exists. Sooner or later it will be necessary,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 21: 16 And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'
Numbers 21: 17 Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well--sing ye unto it--
Numbers 21: 18 The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness to Mattanah;
Numbers 21: 19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
Numbers 21: 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Numbers 21: 21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying:
Numbers 21: 22 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.'
Numbers 21: 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
Numbers 21: 24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was st 
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