| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: loftier and more widely separated from one another. The gaps were
filled with rolling, white clouds, which bathed the shores of the
peaks like a mysterious sea. To pass from island to island was hard
work, the intervening spaces were so wide - Tydomin, however, knew
the way. The intense light, the violet-blue sky, the patches of
vivid landscape, emerging from the white vapour-ocean, made a
profound impression on Maskull's mind. The glow of Alppain was
hidden by the huge mass of Disscourn, which loomed up straight in
front of them.
The green snow on the top of the gigantic pyramid had by now
completely melted away. The black, gold, and crimson of its mighty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: your journey.
"My father is a mighty baron, very wealthy and with a heart so kind
that he has ever taken pleasure in thrusting on me whatever gift he
could think of. I had not a single desire unsatisfied, for before I
could wish for anything it was given me.
"My mother was much like my father. She and her women were always
making jams, jellies, candies, cakes and the like for me to eat; so I
never knew the pleasure of hunger. My clothes were the gayest satins
and velvets, richly made and sewn with gold and silver braid; so it
was impossible to wish for more in the way of apparel. They let me
study my lessons whenever I felt like it and go fishing or hunting as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: crime."
"What is the order of the day?" said Paccard, with the respectful
demeanor a marshal must have assumed when taking his orders from Louis
XVIII.
"You must get out every evening at ten o'clock," replied Herrera.
"Make your way pretty briskly to the Bois de Vincennes, the Bois de
Meudon, and de Ville-d'Avray. If any one should follow you, let them
do it; be free of speech, chatty, open to a bribe. Talk about
Rubempre's jealousy and his mad passion for madame, saying that he
would not on any account have it known that he had a mistress of that
kind."
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