| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: were making for Fallow at nearer thirty than twenty miles an
hour.
As we an into the village, I heard the church clock chime the
half-hour. Half-past four. We had come well. A moment later I
had stopped at the old inn's door. Except for a flickering
light, visible between the curtains of the Cromwell room, the
place was in darkness. I clambered stiffly out and felt for the
key I had asked for. A Yale lock in the studded door! Never
mind. This door is only a reproduction. The original probably
shuts off some pantry from some servants' hall in New York City.
However. When I had switched on a course of lights, I went back
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: to the same method of treatment.
In America the aristocratic element has always been feeble
from its birth; and if at the present day it is not actually
destroyed, it is at any rate so completely disabled that we can
scarcely assign to it any degree of influence in the course of
affairs. The democratic principle, on the contrary, has gained
so much strength by time, by events, and by legislation, as to
have become not only predominant but all-powerful. There is no
family or corporate authority, and it is rare to find even the
influence of individual character enjoy any durability.
America, then, exhibits in her social state a most
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: beyond the Alu stage; others stop as Bo-lu, as Sto-lu, as
Bandlu or as Kro-lu. The Ho-lu of the first generation may
rise to become Alus; the Alus of the second generation may
become Bo-lu, while it requires three generations of Bo-lu to
become Band-lu, and so on until Kro-lu's parent on one side
must be of the sixth generation.
It was not entirely plain to me even with this explanation,
since I couldn't understand how there could be different
generations of peoples who apparently had no offspring. Yet I
was commencing to get a slight glimmer of the strange laws
which govern propagation and evolution in this weird land.
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