| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: the beach. The Thing had disappeared, and Kotuko was talking
excitedly about his power over spirits as he crouched round the
lamp. In the middle of his wild sayings the girl began to laugh,
and rock herself backward and forward.
Behind her shoulder, crawling into the hut crawl by crawl,
there were two heads, one yellow and one black, that belonged to
two of the most sorrowful and ashamed dogs that ever you saw.
Kotuko the dog was one, and the black leader was the other.
Both were now fat, well-looking, and quite restored to their
proper minds, but coupled to each other in an extraordinary
fashion. When the black leader ran off, you remember,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: three hundred pounds a year....)
Through that central essential London reach I drove, and X2
bored her nose under the foam regardless of it all like a black
hound going through reeds--on what trail even I who made her
cannot tell.
And in this reach, too, one first meets the seagulls and is
reminded of the sea. Blackfriars one takes--just under these two
bridges and just between them is the finest bridge moment in the
world--and behold, soaring up, hanging in the sky over a rude
tumult of warehouses, over a jostling competition of traders,
irrelevantly beautiful and altogether remote, Saint Paul's! "Of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: of the experiment, as your lordship is pleased to call it."
"Nay, now you are unjust, my dear friend," said Lord Woodville.
"You have only to reflect for a single moment, in order to be
convinced that I could not augur the possibility of the pain to
which you have been so unhappily exposed. I was yesterday
morning a complete sceptic on the subject of supernatural
appearances. Nay, I am sure that, had I told you what was said
about that room, those very reports would have induced you, by
your own choice, to select it for your accommodation. It was my
misfortune, perhaps my error, but really cannot be termed my
fault, that you have been afflicted so strangely."
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