| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: last. Billy had always been rather reticent about his people. She
demanded descriptions. She demanded an account of Billy's
furniture, Billy's clothes, Billy's form of exercise. It dawned
upon Benham that for some inexplicable reason she was hostile to
Billy. It was like the unmasking of an ambuscade. He had talked a
lot about Prothero's ideas and the discussions of social reform and
social service that went on in his rooms, for Billy read at unknown
times, and was open at all hours to any argumentative caller. To
Lady Marayne all ideas were obnoxious, a form of fogging; all ideas,
she held, were queer ideas. "And does he call himself a Socialist?"
she asked. "I THOUGHT he would."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rose precipitous cliffs of gorgeous, parti-colored rock,
while beneath our feet a thick mountain grass formed a soft
and noiseless carpet. Since we had entered the canyon we
had had no glimpse of our pursuers, and I was commencing
to hope that they had lost our trail and that we would
reach the now rapidly nearing cliffs in time to scale them
before we should be overtaken.
Ahead we neither saw nor heard any sign which might
betoken the success of Hooja's mission. By now he
should have reached the outposts of the Sarians, and we
should at least hear the savage cries of the tribesmen
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: presence and transformation did not seem to be all the cause. She could
ride without pain, walk without losing her breath, work without blistering
her hands; and in this there was compensation. The building of the house
that was to become a home, the development of water resources and land that
meant the making of a ranch--these did not altogether constitute the
anticipation of content. To be active, to accomplish things, to recall to
mind her knowledge of manual training, of domestic science, of designing
and painting, to learn to cook-these were indeed measures full of reward,
but they were not all. In her wondering, pondering meditation she arrived
at the point where she tried to assign to her love the growing fullness of
her life. This, too, splendid and all-pervading as it was, she had to
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