| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: the courage to face a little dust. So Carley rode on.
The wind appeared to be gusty. It would blow hard awhile, then lull for a
few moments. On the whole, however, it increased in volume and persistence
until she was riding against a gale. She had now come to a bare, flat,
gravelly region, scant of cedars and brush, and far ahead she could see a
dull yellow pall rising high into the sky. It was a duststorm and it was
sweeping down on the wings of that gale. Carley remembered that somewhere
along this flat there was a log cabin which had before provided shelter for
her and Flo when they were caught in a rainstorm. It seemed unlikely that
she had passed by this cabin.
Resolutely she faced the gale and knew she had a task to find that refuge.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: were obliged to break open one of the doors to get to it. And
a revolver was found lying close at hand, upon the desk. But
this revolver was loaded in every chamber and there was no other
weapon to be seen in the room. There was a bullet wound in the
left breast of the corpse, and the bullet had penetrated the
heart. Death must have been instantaneous.
The most mysterious thing about this strange affair was
discovered during the autopsy. It is incredible, but it is
absolutely true, as it is vouched for under oath by the
authorities who were present, that the bullet which was found
in the heart of the dead man was made of solid gold. And yet,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: in whose hands he persisted in leaving it, although the address was
death to them and the distribution of letters in Samoa formed no
part of their profession. His great masterwork of pleasantry, the
Scanlon affair, must be narrated in its place. And he was no less
bold than comical. The ADAMS was not supposed to be a match for
the ADLER; there was no glory to be gained in beating her; and yet
I have heard naval officers maintain she might have proved a
dangerous antagonist in narrow waters and at short range.
Doubtless Leary thought so. He was continually daring Fritze to
come on; and already, in a despatch of the 9th, I find Becker
complaining of his language in the hearing of German officials, and
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