| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: have explained to you, that she may meet the arrows
with a stronger counter-suggestion of immunity."
Carthoris did as Jav bid him; but they came to the great
gates without sign of pursuit developing. Here Jav set in
motion the mechanism that rolled the huge, wheel-like
gate aside, and a moment later the three, accompanied
by the banth, stepped out into the plain before Lothar.
Scarce had they covered a hundred yards when the
sound of many men shouting arose behind them. As
they turned they saw a company of bowmen debouching
upon the plain from the gate through which they had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Lord, bearing trials and tribulations, scoffs and sneers, stripes
and punishments, for His dear sake."
"Bring up the little bag with the tea and a kettle of water," he
called the next instant to his boatmen; "not forgetting the haunch
of cariboo and the mixing-pan."
When his men, converts by his own hand, had gained the bank, the
trio fell to their knees, hands and backs burdened with camp
equipage, and offered up thanks for their passage through the
wilderness and their safe arrival. Hay Stockard looked upon the
function with sneering disapproval, the romance and solemnity of
it lost to his matter-of-fact soul. Baptiste the Red, still
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Yet heavens have glory for this victory!
BURGUNDY.
Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
Enshrines thee in his heart, and there erects
Thy noble deeds as valor's monuments.
TALBOT.
Thanks, gentle duke. But where is Pucelle now?
I think her old familiar is asleep:
Now where 's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?
What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief
That such a valiant company are fled.
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