| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: destroying the greater number. He loosened the elastic band and
spread the remaining envelopes on his desk. The publisher's
notice was among them.
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His wife knew and she made no sign. Glennard found himself in the
case of the seafarer who, closing his eyes at nightfall on a scene
he thinks to put leagues behind him before day, wakes to a port-
hole framing the same patch of shore. From the kind of exaltation
to which his resolve had lifted him he dropped to an unreasoning
apathy. His impulse of confession had acted as a drug to self-
reproach. He had tried to shift a portion of his burden to his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: 3. [53] Hostes Christi et Pape sunt ii, qui propter venias
predicandas verbum dei in aliis ecclesiis penitus silere iubent.
4. [54] Iniuria fit verbo dei, dum in eodem sermone equale vel
longius tempus impenditur veniis quam illi.
5. [55] Mens Pape necessario est, quod, si venie (quod minimum
est) una campana, unis pompis et ceremoniis celebrantur,
Euangelium (quod maximum est) centum campanis, centum pompis,
centum ceremoniis predicetur.
6. [56] Thesauri ecclesie, unde Pape dat indulgentias, neque satis
nominati sunt neque cogniti apud populum Christi.
7. [57] Temporales certe non esse patet, quod non tam facile eos
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: horses were shot from beneath him, but from the moment
that he appeared the Luthanian line ceased to waver or
fall back. The advanced trenches that they had abandoned
to the Austrians they took again at the point of the bayonet.
Charge after charge they repulsed, and all the time there
hovered above the enemy Lutha's sole aeroplane, watching,
watching, ever watching for the coming of the allies. Some-
where to the northeast the Serbians were advancing toward
Lustadt. Would they come in time?
It was five o'clock in the morning of the second day, and
though the Luthanian line still held, Barney Custer knew
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