| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: his gaze was sombre, his thoughts were not. With his cruelly true
mental vision which pierced through shams, and his capacity for
detached observation - which properly applied might have carried him
very far, indeed - he perceived the grotesqueness, the artificiality
of the emotion which in that moment he experienced, but by which he
refused to be possessed. It sprang entirely from the consciousness
that she was his mother; as if, all things considered, the more or
less accidental fact that she had brought him into the world could
establish between them any real bond at this time of day! The
motherhood that bears and forsakes is less than animal. He had
considered this; he had been given ample leisure in which to consider
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: a big future before you. Joe Powers himself has noticed your
speeches. P. C. told me that last night."
For a moment the lawyer felt an exultant paeon of victory beat in
his blood. His imagination saw the primrose path of the future
stretch before him in a golden glow. The surge of triumph passed
and he was himself again, cool and wary. His eyes met Big Tim's
full and straight. "I was elected to support Hardy. I expect to
stay with him."
The political boss waved aside this declaration. "Sure. Of course
you've got to VOTE for him. I've got too much horse sense to try
to buy YOU. But after this election? Your whole future's not tied
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him, and the royalists were not aware that he had re-
covered sufficiently to again mount a horse.
And so it was that the forces under the King of the
Romans pushed back the men of Henry de Montfort,
and ever and ever closer to the car came the royalists
until they were able to fall upon it, crying out insults
against the old Earl and commanding him to come
forth. And when they had killed the occupants of the
car they found that Simon de Montfort was not among
them, but instead he had fastened there three im-
portant citizens of London, old men and influential,
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