| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: rugged bastion of the line of bluffs concealed the doctor's
house; and across the top of that projection the soft night
wind carried and unwound about the hills a coil of sable
smoke. What fuel could produce a vapour so sluggish to
dissipate in that dry air, or what furnace pour it forth so
copiously, I was unable to conceive; but I knew well enough
that it came from the doctor's chimney; I saw well enough
that my father had already disappeared; and in despite of
reason, I connected in my mind the loss of that dear
protector with the ribbon of foul smoke that trailed along
the mountains.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: maintained, on the other hand, that their prisoner was worth more
to them alive than dead. There was a chance that he might weaken
before morning and tell secrets. At worst they would still have
his life as a card to hold in case of need over the head of the
rebels. If it should turn out that this was not needed, he could
be executed in the morning as well as to-night.
It may be conceived with what anxiety Bucky listened to the
whispered conversation and waited for the decision of the
governor. He was a game man, noted even in a country famous for
its courageous citizens, but he felt strangely weak now as he
waited with that leather-crusted face of his bereft of all
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: wrists. These did not cause them any great
annoyance but prevented them from making an
attack, had they been inclined to do so.
The Nome King, thinking himself wholly master of
the situation, was laughing and jeering at his
prisoners when Polychrome, exquisitely beautiful
and dancing like a ray of light, entered the
cavern.
"Oho!" cried the King; "a Rainbow under ground,
eh?" and then he stared hard at Polychrome, and
still harder, and then he sat up and pulled the
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