| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Dorothy knew almost everybody in Oz, and it was
she who had discovered the Scarecrow, the Tin
Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, as well as Tik-tok
the Clockwork Man. Her life was very pleasant now,
and although she had been made a Princess of Oz by
her friend Ozma she did not care much to be a
Princess and remained as sweet as when she had
been plain Dorothy Gale of Kansas.
Dorothy was reading in a book this evening
when Jellia Jamb, the favorite servant-maid of
the palace, came to say that the Shaggy Man
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: interpreters of a British statute than any foreign Government can be
presumed to be..." He consented to a commission, but drew the line at
any probing of England's good faith.
We persisted. In 1868, Lord Westbury, Lord High Chancellor, declared in
the House of Lords that "the animus with which the neutral powers acted
was the only true criterion."
This is the test which we asked should be applied. We quoted British
remarks about us, Gladstone, for example, as evidence of unfriendly and
insincere animus on the part of those at the head of the British
Government.
Replying to our pressing the point of animus, the British Government
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: cube and rampart formations; a decision that the cave mouths indicate
dissolved calcaerous veins; a conjecture that certain slopes and
passes would permit of the scaling and crossing of the entire
range by seasoned mountaineers; and a remark that the mysterious
other side holds a lofty and immense superplateau as ancient and
unchanging as the mountains themselves - twenty thousand feet
in elevation, with grotesque rock formations protruding through
a thin glacial layer and with low gradual foothills between the
general plateau surface and the sheer precipices of the highest
peaks.
This body of data is in every respect true so far as
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