| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: eleven more youths before Abdallah, as like the first as so many
pictures of the same person, and each youth bore in his hands a
box like the one that the monster had given Abdallah. "Will my
lord have anything further?" asked the Genie.
"Let me think," said Abdallah. "Yes; I know the town well, and
that should one so rich as I ride into it without guards he would
be certain to be robbed before he had travelled a hundred paces.
Let me have an escort of a hundred armed men."
"It shall be done," said the Genie, and, waving his hand, the
road where they stood was instantly filled with armed men, with
swords and helmets gleaming and flashing in the sun, and all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: At the foot of the pylone stood a miserable shed, its shutters
tightly closed. No other habitation was to be seen; the entire
island was less than a quarter of a mile in circumference;
and the conclusion was irresistible that it was the sole surviving
remnant of Formentera, once a member of the Balearic Archipelago.
To leap on shore, to clamber over the slippery stones,
and to reach the cabin was but the work of a few moments.
The worm-eaten door was bolted on the inside.
Servadac began to knock with all his might. No answer.
Neither shouting nor knocking could draw forth a reply.
"Let us force it open, Procope!" he said.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: really is, is that they never raise their thoughts above sensible objects,
and are so accustomed to consider nothing except by way of imagination,
which is a mode of thinking limited to material objects, that all that is
not imaginable seems to them not intelligible. The truth of this is
sufficiently manifest from the single circumstance, that the philosophers
of the schools accept as a maxim that there is nothing in the
understanding which was not previously in the senses, in which however it
is certain that the ideas of God and of the soul have never been; and it
appears to me that they who make use of their imagination to comprehend
these ideas do exactly the some thing as if, in order to hear sounds or
smell odors, they strove to avail themselves of their eyes; unless indeed
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