| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: stored with too great a quantity of the rays and she had
sailed up from Helium with five hundred officers and men,
never to return.
Her power of repulsion for the planet was so great that
it had carried her far into space, where she can be seen
today, by the aid of powerful telescopes, hurtling through
the heavens ten thousand miles from Mars; a tiny satellite
that will thus encircle Barsoom to the end of time.
The fourth day after my arrival at Zodanga I made my
first flight, and as a result of it I won a promotion which
included quarters in the palace of Than Kosis.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: up with your father."
She stopped unfastening her long braids of hair.
"Certainly I'll go to the shelter-house," she said, "and I'll
shake a little sense into Dorothy Jennings--the abominable little
idiot! But they needn't think I'm going to help them with
father; I wouldn't if I could, and I can't. He won't speak to
me. I'm in disgrace, Minnie." She gave her hair a shake,
twisted it into a rope and then a knot, and stuck a pin in it.
It was lovely: I wish Miss Cobb could have seen her. "You've
known father for years, Minnie: have you ever known him to be
so--so--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: threads of the web," said Ozma, finally. "Let us look
about for such a tool."
So they wandered among the bushes and finally came to
a shallow pool of water, formed by a small bubbling
spring. Dorothy stooped to get a drink and discovered
in the water a green crab, about as big as her hand.
The crab had two big, sharp claws, and as soon as
Dorothy saw them she had an idea that those claws could
save them.
"Come out of the water," she called to the crab; "I
want to talk to you."
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