| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: flight. Rapid thumping of boots on the porch told of men
hurrying from the house. Several horses dashed past her, not ten
feet distant. One rider saw her, for he turned to shout back.
This drove Madeline into a panic. Hardly knowing what she did,
she began to run away from the house. Her feet seemed leaden.
She felt the same horrible powerlessness that sometimes came over
her when she dreamed of being pursued. Horses with shouting
riders streaked past her in the shrubbery. There was a thunder of
hoofs behind her. She turned aside, but the thundering grew
nearer. She was being run down.
As Madeline shut her eyes and, staggering, was about to fall,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: proved his inspiration true. His dislike of 'doubtful knowledge'
and his efforts to liberate his mind from the thraldom of hypotheses
have been already referred to. Still this rebel against theory was
incessantly theorising himself. His principal researches are all
connected by an undercurrent of speculation. Theoretic ideas were
the very sap of his intellect--the source from which all his
strength as an experimenter was derived. While once sauntering with
him through the Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, I asked him what
directed his attention to the magnetization of light. It was his
theoretic notions. He had certain views regarding the unity and
convertibility of natural forces; certain ideas regarding the
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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: thousand lie without. What say you, My Lord?"
"Your grievance against Peter of Colfax must be a
mighty one, that you search him out thus within a day's
ride from the army of the King who has placed a
price upon your head, and from another army of men
who be equally your enemies."
"I would gladly go to hell after Peter of Colfax,"
replied the outlaw. "What my grievance be matters
not. Norman of Torn acts first and explains afterward,
if he cares to explain at all. Come forth, Peter of Col-
fax, and for once in your life, fight like a man, that
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