| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: her his seat, which he might prefer to her own, but she
thanked him with a slight bend of her graceful neck.
The young girl appeared to be about sixteen or seven-
teen years of age. Her head, truly charming, was of the
purest Sclavonic type -- slightly severe, and likely in a few
summers to unfold into beauty rather than mere prettiness.
From beneath a sort of kerchief which she wore on her head
escaped in profusion light golden hair. Her eyes were
brown, soft, and expressive of much sweetness of temper.
The nose was straight, and attached to her pale and some-
what thin cheeks by delicately mobile nostrils. The lips
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which water was pouring out into the sea. "It's the subterranean
channel of an inland river," I cried. "It flows through a land
covered with vegetation--and therefore a land upon which the
sun shines. No subterranean caverns produce any order of plant
life even remotely resembling what we have seen disgorged by
this river. Beyond those cliffs lie fertile lands and fresh
water--perhaps, game!"
"Yis, sir," said Olson, "behoind the cliffs! Ye spoke a true
word, sir--behoind!"
Bradley laughed--a rather sorry laugh, though. "You might as
well call our attention to the fact, sir," he said, "that science
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: so soon as we've got the place a little more to ourselves. For I've
no faith in all this publicity for experimental trials."
And to that end, while all the world was reading of the certain
failure of the new flying machine, MacAndrew was soaring and curvetting
with great amplitude and dignity over the Epsom and Wimbledon divisions;
and Banghurst, restored once more to hope and energy, and regardless
of public security and the Board of Trade, was pursuing his gyrations
and trying to attract his attention, on a motor car and in his pyjamas--
he had caught sight of the ascent when pulling up the blind of his
bedroom window--equipped, among other things, with a film camera
that was subsequently discovered to be jammed. And Filmer
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