| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: round spot of white.
"Say mister, mind tellin' me his name?" asked a ragged urchin,
with born love of a horse in his eyes.
"Bullet," replied the rider.
"Thet there's fer the white mark, ain't it?" whispered the
youngster to another. "Say, ain't he a whopper? Biggest hoss I
ever seen."
Bullet carried a huge black silver-ornamented saddle of Mexican
make, a lariat and canteen, and a small pack rolled into a
tarpaulin.
This rider apparently put all care of appearances upon his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: base. It was a rough road, clogged with boulders and crossed by
cracks and water gullies; they could see the water, but could not get
at it. There was no shade. Blisters formed on their skin, while all
the water in their blood seemed to dry up.
Maskull forgot his own tortures in his devil's delight at Tydomin's.
"Sing me a song!" he called out presently. "A characteristic one."
She turned her head and gave him a long, peculiar look; then, without
any sort of expostulation, started singing. Her voice was low and
weird. The song was so extraordinary that he had to rub his eyes to
ascertain whether he was awake or dreaming. The slow surprises of
the grotesque melody began to agitate him in a horrible fashion; the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Johnson and Alvarez were at my side when, without warning,
the bow swung swiftly around and the ship fell into the
trough of the sea.
"The other three have gone," I said, and I happened to be
looking at Johnson as I spoke. Was it the shadow of a
satisfied smile that crossed his thin lips? I do not know;
but at least he did not weep.
"You always have been curious, sir, about the great unknown
beyond thirty," he said. "You are in a good way to have
your curiosity satisfied." And then I could not mistake the
slight sneer that curved his upper lip. There must have
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