| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: crags and canons, and when they could not get the others to
accompany them they went alone, giving the cowboy guides many a
long climb.
Necessarily, of course, Madeline and her guests were now thrown
much in company with the cowboys. And the party grew to be like
one big family. Her friends not only adapted themselves
admirably to the situation, but came to revel in it. As for
Madeline, she saw that outside of a certain proclivity of the
cowboys to be gallant and on dress-parade and alive to
possibilities of fun and excitement, they were not greatly
different from what they were at all times. If there were a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: difference between decreeing light in chaos, and lighting the gas
in a metropolitan back-parlour with a box of patent matches; and do
what we will, there is always something made to our hand, if it
were only our fingers.
But there was something worse than foolishness placarded in Creil
Church. The Association of the Living Rosary (of which I had never
previously heard) is responsible for that. This Association was
founded, according to the printed advertisement, by a brief of Pope
Gregory Sixteenth, on the 17th of January 1832: according to a
coloured bas-relief, it seems to have been founded, sometime other,
by the Virgin giving one rosary to Saint Dominic, and the Infant
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan grasped his kill and dragged it to the partial
seclusion of the bush which had hidden his own near
approach, and there he squatted upon it, cut a huge
hunk of flesh from the loin and proceeded to satisfy
his hunger with the warm and dripping meat.
Attracted by the shrill screams of the mare, a pair of
hyenas slunk presently into view. They trotted to a
point a few yards from the gorging ape-man, and halted.
Tarzan looked up, bared his fighting fangs and growled.
The hyenas returned the compliment, and withdrew a
couple of paces. They made no move to attack; but
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