| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: had spoken of, and that it had been extended later to the ship.
He learned afterwards that this was true from the men who had
surrendered. The Jasper B. had been abandoned for so long, and
was so completely abandoned except for the visits of Cap'n
Abernethy, who fished from it now and then, that Loge had
conceived the idea of making it the back-door, so to speak, of
Morris's. In the event of a raid upon Morris's his "get-away"
through the hulk was provided for. He had intended buying the
ship himself; but Cleggett had forestalled him.
From the prisoners Cleggett also learned later that two men had
been concerned in the explosion which had broken the big rocks on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: broke my left wing, so that I can't fly; and still
another broke my right leg, so that I can't walk.
It was the most careless shot I ever heard of!"
"Can't you manage to lift your body off from
my commanding officers?" inquired Files. "From
their cries I'm afraid your great weight is
crushing them."
"I hope it is," growled the Rak. "I want to
crush them, if possible, for I have a bad
disposition. If only I could open my mouth, I'd
eat all of you, although my appetite is poorly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: danger zone.
This method of finding the range is carried out quickly--two or
three seconds being occupied in the task. In the early days of
the war the German anti-aircraft artillerymen proved sadly
deficient in this work, but practice improved their fire to a
marvellous degree, with the result that at the moment it is
dangerous for an aviator to essay his task within an altitude of
6,000 feet, which is the range of the average anti-aircraft gun.
The country occupied by a belligerent is divided up in this
manner into a series of triangles. For instance, a machine
entering hostile territory from the east, enters the triangle
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