| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: for one man and you shall have all you need if ever we
reach civilization."
So on the following day they started north along the shore.
Each man carrying a rifle and ammunition, beside bedding
and some food and cooking utensils.
The latter seemed to Tarzan a most useless encumbrance,
so he threw his away.
"But you must learn to eat cooked food, my friend,"
remonstrated D'Arnot. "No civilized men eat raw flesh."
"There will be time enough when I reach civilization," said
Tarzan. "I do not like the things and they only spoil the taste
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . .
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . .
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power
to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: I had arrived. This I now entered, conscious that the rest of
my course would be harder because of the tumbled state of the
masonry outside the archive building. My new metal-eased burden
weighed upon me, and I found it harder and harder to be quiet
as I stumbled among debris and fragments of every sort.
Then
I came to the ceiling-high mound of debris through which I had
wrenched a scanty passage. My dread at wriggling through again
was infinite, for my first passage had made some noise, and I
now - after seeing those possible prints - dreaded sound above
all things. The case, too, doubled the problem of traversing the
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