| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: by a grotesque fancy of the ultimate eating away and dry-rotting
and dispersal of all our world. So that while man still
struggles and dreams his very substance will change and crumble
from beneath him. I mention this here as a queer persistent
fancy. Suppose, indeed, that is to be the end of our planet; no
splendid climax and finale, no towering accumulation of
achievements, but just--atomic decay! I add that to the ideas of
the suffocating comet, the dark body out of space, the burning
out of the sun, the distorted orbit, as a new and far more
possible end--as Science can see ends--to this strange by-play
of matter that we call human life. I do not believe this can be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: "Well, Kenneth, are you going to come out with the truth about that
Wild-West scheme of yours? Now that you've graduated you want a fling. You
want to ride mustangs, to see cowboys, to hunt and shoot--all that sort of
thing."
When father spoke in such a way it usually meant the defeat of my schemes.
I grew cold all over.
"Yes, father, I'd like all that-- But I mean business. I want to be a
forest ranger. Let me go to Arizona this summer. And in the fall I'd--I'd
like to go to a school of forestry."
There! the truth was out, and my feelings were divided between relief and
fear. Before father could reply I launched into a set speech upon forestry,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: except by threats, and my name grew great among the people of the
Otomie.
One Spaniard I rescued from death and afterwards I gave him his
liberty. From him I inquired of the doings of de Garcia or
Sarceda, and learned that he was still in the service of Cortes,
but that Marina had been true to her word, and had brought disgrace
upon him because he had threatened to put Otomie to the torture.
Moreover Cortes was angry with him because of our escape, the
burden of which Marina had laid upon his shoulders, hinting that he
had taken a bribe to suffer us to pass the gate.
Of the fourteen years of my life which followed the defeat of the
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