| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: into the face of Bukawai, the old witch-doctor seized him,
muffling his screams with a palm across his mouth.
Tibo struggled futilely.
A moment later he was being hustled away through the dark
and terrible jungle, the frightful old man still muffling
his screams, and the two hideous hyenas pacing now on
either side, now before, now behind, always prowling,
always growling, snapping, snarling, or, worst of all,
laughing hideously.
To little Tibo, who within his brief existence had passed
through such experiences as are given to few to pass
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: her black almond-shaped eyes. At this moment she was deplorably thin;
her face was covered with dust, like fruit exposed to the drought of a
highroad. Scarcely clothed in rags, exhausted by marches, her hair in
disorder, and clinging together under a piece of a shawl tied close
over her head, still she had the graces of a woman; her movements were
engaging, her small rose mouth and white teeth, the outline of her
features and figure, charms which misery, cold, and neglect had not
altogether defaced, still suggested love to any man who could think of
a woman. Rosina had one of those frames which are fragile in
appearance, but wiry and full of spring. Her husband, a gentleman of
Piedmont, had a face expressive of ironical simplicity, if it is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: artists, inventors, or discoverers, men lured forward by
successive hopes; and the rest are those who live by games of
skill or hazard - financiers, billiard-players, gamblers, and
the like. But in unloved toils, even under the prick of
necessity, no man is continually sedulous. Once eliminate
the fear of starvation, once eliminate or bound the hope of
riches, and we shall see plenty of skulking and malingering.
Society will then be something not wholly unlike a cotton
plantation in the old days; with cheerful, careless,
demoralised slaves, with elected overseers, and, instead of
the planter, a chaotic popular assembly. If the blood be
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