| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: that measures the approach of retribution. Barring accidents, the
man was his.
But the unforeseen happened. Buck stepped in the hole of a
prairie dog and went down. Over his head flew the rider like a
stone from a catapult.
How long Ned Bannister lay unconscious he never knew. But when he
came to himself it was none too soon. He sat up dizzily and
passed his hand over his head. Something had happened.
What was it? Oh, yes, he had been thrown from his horse. A wave
of recollection passed over him, and his mind was clear once
more. Presently he got to his feet and moved rather uncertainly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the Arab--a mercy with which he was well acquainted.
Facing both death and despoilment of his treasure, the
Belgian cast about for some plan of escape, and the
only one that appealed to him as containing even a
remote possibility of success hinged upon the chance of
bribing Achmet Zek.
Werper had fired all but a single cartridge, when,
during a lull in the fighting, he called aloud to his
opponent.
"Achmet Zek," he cried, "Allah alone knows which one of
us may leave our bones to rot where he lies upon this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of
their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present
deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional
grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and
easy method of making these children sound and useful members of
the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to
have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only
for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater
extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a
certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to
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