| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: seemed to be talking foolishly.
To-day Barney Flinn, the big red-headed
Irishman who had been with Alexandra for five
years and who was actually her foreman, though
he had no such title, was grumbling about the
new silo she had put up that spring. It hap-
pened to be the first silo on the Divide, and
Alexandra's neighbors and her men were skep-
tical about it. "To be sure, if the thing don't
work, we'll have plenty of feed without it,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: polarized ray should pass through its length; the glass acted as
air, water, or any other transparent substance would do; and if the
eye-piece were previously turned into such a position that the
polarized ray was extinguished, or rather the image produced by it
rendered invisible, then the introduction of the glass made no
alteration in this respect. In this state of circumstances, the
force of the electro-magnet was developed by sending an electric
current through its coils, and immediately the image of the
lamp-flame became visible and continued so as long as the
arrangement continued magnetic. On stopping the electric current,
and so causing the magnetic force to cease, the light instantly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: ordered all the little neat curious things to be done which suited
her own conveniences, and made it the pleasantest little thing
within doors that could possibly be made, though its situation
being such as it could not be allowed to stand after the great
building was finished, we now see no remains of it.
The queen had here her gallery of beauties, being the pictures at
full-length of the principal ladies attending upon her Majesty, or
who were frequently in her retinue; and this was the more beautiful
sight because the originals were all in being, and often to be
compared with their pictures. Her Majesty had here a fine
apartment, with a set of lodgings for her private retreat only, but
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