| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: in the Royal Courts of Europe.
Mlle. Clifford was born in London in 1884
and began swallowing the blades when only
15 years of age. During the foreign tour of
the Barnum & Bailey show she joined that
Organization in Vienna, 1901, and remained
with it for five years, and now, after eighteen
years of service, she stands well up among the
stars. She has swallowed a 26-inch blade, but
the physicians advise her not to indulge her
appetite for such luxuries often, as it is quite
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: masculine nose." Charles I. King of Naples, Count of Anjou, and
brother of St. Lonis. He died in 1284. The annalist of Florence
remarks, that "there had been no sovereign of the house of
France, since the time of Charlemagne, by whom Charles
was surpassed either in military renown, and prowess, or in the
loftiness of his understanding." G. Villani, 1. vii. c. 94.
We shall, however, find many of his actions severely reprobated
in the twentieth Canto.
v. 113. That stripling.] Either (as the old commentators
suppose) Alonzo III King of Arragon, the eldest son of Peter III
who died in 1291, at the age of 27, or, according to Venturi,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: for forty-eight hours. The young minister was enfolded
in the coils of a fever of some sort, which Brother Soulsby,
who had dabbled considerably in medicine, admitted that
he was puzzled about. Sometimes he thought that it
was typhoid, and then again there were symptoms which
looked suspiciously like brain fever. The Methodists
of Octavius counted no physician among their numbers,
and when, on the second day, Alice grew scared, and decided,
with Brother Soulsby's assent, to call in professional
advice, the only doctor's name she could recall was that
of Ledsmar. She was conscious of an instinctive dislike
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