| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: Professor Donders, of Utrecht,[14] well known as one of the highest
authorities in Europe on vision and on the structure of the eye,
has most kindly undertaken for me this investigation with
the aid of the many ingenious mechanisms of modern science,
and has published the results.[15] He shows that during
violent expiration the external, the intra-ocular, and the
retro-ocular vessels of the eye are all affected in two ways,
namely by the increased pressure of the blood in the arteries,
and by the return of the blood in the veins being impeded.
It is, therefore, certain that both the arteries and the veins
of the eye are more or less distended during violent expiration.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: could not do this. He preferred to surrender and trust to
chance to open the way to escape later.
When Captain Ernst Maenck drove up he found the pris-
oners disarmed, standing beside the now-useless car. He
alighted from his own machine and with a low bow saluted
the princess, an ironical smile upon his thin lips. Then he
turned his attention toward her companion.
"Who are you?" he demanded gruffly. In the darkness
he failed to recognize the American whom he thought dead
in Austria.
"A servant of the house of Von der Tann," replied Barney.
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: mighty grand now, and money comes in fast, but the Lord will
require the blood of them at our hands yet, He will!"
"My dearest madam, who can prosper more than you? If your husband
copied the Dons too closely once or twice in the matter of those
negroes (which I do not deny,) was he not punished at once when he
lost ships, men, all but life, at St. Juan d'Ulloa?"
"Ay, yes," she said; "and that did give me a bit of comfort,
especially when the queen--God save her tender heart!--was so sharp
with him for pity of the poor wretches, but it has not mended him.
He is growing fast like the rest now, Mr. Gilbert, greedy to win,
and niggardly to spend (God forgive him!) and always fretting and
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