| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: surrounded him. He continued up the river for perhaps a mile;
and then, crossing over to the left bank, drew his craft up on
a low ledge that lay almost on a level with the water.
I dared not follow across the stream, for he most surely would
have seen me. Instead I stopped close to the opposite wall beneath
an overhanging mass of rock that cast a dense shadow beneath it.
Here I could watch Thurid without danger of discovery.
The black was standing upon the ledge beside his boat, looking
up the river, as though he were awaiting one whom he expected
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: "Yes, I am confounded, as it were."
"Can it be that you believe in God?" she cried, with artless joy,
letting fall the tears that gathered in her eyes.
The old man looked round the simple but dainty little room he had
given to his Ursula. On the floor was a plain green carpet, very
inexpensive, which she herself kept exquisitely clean; the walls were
hung with a gray paper strewn with roses and green leaves; at the
windows, which looked to the court, were calico curtains edged with a
band of some pink material; between the windows and beneath a tall
mirror was a pier-table topped with marble, on which stood a Sevres
vase in which she put her nosegays; opposite the chimney was a little
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: such things as Freud, I understand, lays stress upon. If
there was an Oedipus complex or anything of that sort in my
case it has been very completely washed out again. Perhaps a
child which is brought up in a proper nursery of its own and
sees a lot of pictures of the nude human body, and so on,
gets its mind shifted off any possible concentration upon the
domestic aspect of sex. I got to definite knowledge pretty
early. By the time I was eleven or twelve."
"Normally? "
"What is normally? Decently, anyhow. Here again I may be
forgetting much secret and shameful curiosity. I got my ideas
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