| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: "I have only one," said the Cat; "but I can generally manage
with that." Just at that moment they heard the cry of a pack of
hounds coming towards them, and the Cat immediately scampered up a
tree and hid herself in the boughs. "This is my plan," said the
Cat. "What are you going to do?" The Fox thought first of one
way, then of another, and while he was debating the hounds came
nearer and nearer, and at last the Fox in his confusion was caught
up by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsmen. Miss Puss, who
had been looking on, said:
"Better one safe way than a hundred on which
you cannot reckon."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: tons, and a bomb weighing one ton were discharged, the weight of
the balloon would be decreased suddenly by approximately five
per cent, so that it would shoot upwards at an alarming speed,
and some seconds would elapse before control was regained.
The method of launching bombs from airships varies considerably.
Some are released from a cradle, being tilted into position ready
for firing, while others are discharged from a tube somewhat
reminiscent of that used for firing torpedoes, with the exception
that little or no initial impetus is imparted to the missile; the
velocity it attains is essentially gravitational.
The French favour the tube-launching method since thereby it is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the
first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
Early in the morning, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow
that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well,
and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment,
he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand. In the day,
I believe, he worked sometimes for a neighbouring farmer, because he often
went forth and did not return until dinner, yet brought no wood with him.
At other times he worked in the garden, but as there was little to do
in the frosty season, he read to the old man and Agatha.
"This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by degrees I
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