| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: fight for life made me hold on.
Blue and white puffs of smoke swept by me. The trail was a dim, twisting
line. The slopes and pines, merged in a mass, flew backward in brown
sheets. Above the roar of the pursuing fire I heard the thunder of Target's
hoofs. I scarcely felt him or the saddle, only a motion and the splitting
of the wind.
The fear of death by fire, which had almost robbed me of strength, passed
from me. My brain cleared. Still I had no kind of hope, only a desperate
resolve not to give up.
The great bay horse was running to save his life and to save mine. It was a
race with fire. When I thought of the horse, and saw how fast he was going,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: organ; it was some time, however, before Jurgis thought of the
voice--he was too much occupied with his eyes to think of what
the man was saying. But suddenly it seemed as if the speaker had
begun pointing straight at him, as if he had singled him out
particularly for his remarks; and so Jurgis became suddenly aware
of his voice, trembling, vibrant with emotion, with pain and
longing, with a burden of things unutterable, not to be compassed
by words. To hear it was to be suddenly arrested, to be gripped,
transfixed.
"You listen to these things," the man was saying, "and you say,
'Yes, they are true, but they have been that way always.' Or you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: in her eyes. She mocks and hates me worse in death than she did in
life, and she says that--that it was not all her fault--because she
loves--because she loves--"
A look of bewilderment came upon his face--his poor, tormented face;
then suddenly Saduko threw his arms wide, and sobbed in an
ever-weakening voice:
"All--all done in vain! Oh! _Mameena, Ma--mee--na, Ma--meena!_" and
fell back dead.
"Saduko has gone away," said Nandie, as she drew a blanket over his
face. "But I wonder," she added with a little hysterical smile, "oh!
how I wonder who it was the Spirit of Mameena told him that she
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