| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: could be very beautiful. They went to the parapet above the
river and stood there, leaning over it elbow to elbow and
smoking cigarettes. Miss Grammont was moved to declare the
Pulteney Bridge, with its noble arch, its effect of height
over the swirling river, and the cluster of houses above,
more beautiful than the Ponte Vecchio at Florence. Down below
was a man in waders with a fishing-rod going to and fro along
the foaming weir, and a couple of boys paddled a boat against
the rush of the water lower down the stream.
"Dear England!" said Miss Grammont, surveying this gracious
spectacle. "How full it is of homely and lovely and kindly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The glory of the spring.
Still in the wallflower's fragrance dwell;
And hover round the slight bluebell,
My childhood's darling flower.
Smile on the little daisy still,
The buttercup's bright goblet fill
With all thy former power.
For ever hang thy dreamy spell
Round mountain star and heather bell,
And do not pass away
From sparkling frost, or wreathed snow,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his judges," and with that he unbuckled his scabbard and
threw his sword at my feet.
In an instant soldiers and citizens, officers and nobles
were crowding past the soldiers of Zodanga and forcing their
way to the Throne of Righteousness. A hundred men surged
upon the platform, and a hundred blades rattled and clanked
to the floor at my feet. Zat Arras and his officers were
furious, but they were helpless. One by one I raised the
swords to my lips and buckled them again upon their owners.
"Come," sand Kantos Kan, "we will escort John Carter and
his party to his own palace," and they formed about us and
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