| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: was so heavy that three men could scarcely have lifted it. Yet this
morning when Glinda entered her drawing room after breakfast, the good
Sorceress was amazed to discover that her Great Book of Records had
mysteriously disappeared.
Advancing to the table, she found the chains had been cut with some sharp
instrument, and this must have been done while all in the castle slept.
Glinda was shocked and grieved. Who could have done this wicked, bold thing? And who
could wish to deprive her of her Great Book of Records?
The Sorceress was thoughtful for a time, considering the consequences
of her loss. Then she went to her Room of Magic to prepare a charm
that would tell her who had stolen the Record Book. But when she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: suppose."
They left their dump-hill and proceeded over to the dance. The musician
sat high and solitary upon two starch-boxes, fiddle on knee, staring and
waiting. Half the floor was bare; on the other half the revellers were
densely clotted. At the crowd's outer rim the young horsemen, flushed and
swaying, retained their gaudy dance partners strongly by the waist, to be
ready when the music should resume. "What is it?" they asked. "Who is
it?" And they looked in across heads and shoulders, inattentive to the
caresses which the partners gave them.
Mrs. Lusk was who it was, and she had taken poison here in their midst,
after many dances and drinks.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the murdered man. It is the only thing I see, however. I have
learned this much," Hotchkiss concluded: "Lower seven was reserved
from Cresson."
Cresson! Where Alison West and Mrs. Curtis had taken the train!
McKnight came forward and suddenly held out his hand. "Mr.
Hotchkiss," he said, "I - I'm sorry if I have been offensive. I
thought when you came in, that, like the Irishman and the government,
you were 'forninst' us. If you will put those cheerful relics out
of sight somewhere, I should be glad to have you dine with me at
the Incubator." (His name for his bachelor apartment.) "Compared
with Johnson, you are the great original protoplasm."
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