| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And chatt'ring pies in dismal discord sung.
Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,
And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,
An indigested and deformed lump,
Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
To signify thou cam'st to bite the world;
And, if the rest be true which I have heard,
Thou cam'st--
GLOSTER.
I'll hear no more. Die, prophet, in thy speech.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: turned the indicator and began to descend. When, at last, they landed
gently upon a rocky eminence of the Kuen-Lun mountains, the boy's
strength was almost exhausted, and his limbs ached with the strain of
clinging to the Turk's body.
His first act was to transfer the traveling machine to his own wrist
and to see that his other electrical devices were safely bestowed in
his pockets. Then he sat upon the rock to rest until the Turk
recovered consciousness.
Presently the fellow moved uneasily, rolled over, and then sat up and
stared at his surroundings. Perhaps he thought he had been dreaming,
for he rubbed his eyes and looked again with mingled surprise and alarm.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: up the stairs, or was laboring under a powerful emotion. His face was gray.
"I could not find any powder!" he exclaimed. "I searched every nook and corner
in Capt. Boggs' house. There is no powder there."
A brief silence ensued. Everyone in the block-house heard the young man's
voice. No one moved. They all seemed waiting for someone to speak. Finally
Silas Zane burst out:
"Not find it? You surely could not have looked well. Capt. Boggs himself told
me there were three kegs of powder in the storeroom. I will go and find it
myself."
Alfred did not answer, but sat down on a bench with an odd numb feeling round
his heart. He knew what was coming. He had been in the Captain's house and had
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