| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "And leave those brave fellows leaderless?" cried Carthoris,
whose loyal nature revolted at the merest suggestion
of such a thing.
Kar Komak laughed.
"You forget," he said, "that they are but thin air--
figments of my brain. They will vanish, unscathed, when
we have no further need for them. Praised be your
first ancestor, redman, that you thought of this chance
in time! It would never have occurred to me to imagine
that I might wield the same power that brought me into
existence."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: the first it had been a squeeze to get in through the
entrance-crevice. This had had its advantages,
however. It had prevented the larger Folk from taking
our cave away from us. And it was a most desirable
cave, the highest on the bluff, the safest, and in
winter the smallest and warmest.
To show the stage of the mental development of the
Folk, I may state that it would have been a simple
thing for some of them to have driven us out and
enlarged the crevice-opening. But they never thought
of it. Lop-Ear and I did not think of it either until
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: with Harry Haydock--their collars torn off, their hair in
their eyes; and the owlish Mr. Julius Flickerbaugh was
retreating from Juanita Haydock, and gulping with unaccustomed
laughter. Guy Pollock's discreet brown scarf hung down his
back. Young Rita Simons's net blouse had lost two buttons,
and betrayed more of her delicious plump shoulder than was
regarded as pure in Gopher Prairie. Whether by shock, disgust,
joy of combat, or physical activity, all the party were
freed from their years of social decorum. George Edwin Mott
giggled; Luke Dawson twisted his beard; Mrs. Clark insisted,
`I did too, Sam--I got a shoe--I never knew I could fight
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