| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: companion had. That she, at all events, might be recorded as
having waited in vain--this affected him sharply, and all the more
because of his it first having done little more than amuse himself
with the idea. It grew more grave as the gravity of her condition
grew, and the state of mind it produced in him, which he himself
ended by watching as if it had been some definite disfigurement of
his outer person, may pass for another of his surprises. This
conjoined itself still with another, the really stupefying
consciousness of a question that he would have allowed to shape
itself had he dared. What did everything mean--what, that is, did
SHE mean, she and her vain waiting and her probable death and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: two hands over a wire glowing in a black abyss.
Then we thought of the meaning of that
which lay before us. We can light our
tunnel, and the City, and all the Cities of
the world with nothing save metal and
wires. We can give our brothers a new
light, cleaner and brighter than any they
have ever known. The power of the sky
can be made to do men's bidding. There
are no limits to its secrets and its might,
and it can be made to grant us anything if
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: He saw from her expression that she had realized what had been
so hard for her to believe. Watching his chance, he flashed a
look at her; and then it seemed to him the change in her face
was wonderful.
Later, after he had left Mrs. Bland with a meaning
"Adios--manana," and was walking along beside the old outlaw,
he found himself thinking of the girl instead of the woman, and
of how he had seen her face blaze with hope and gratitude.
CHAPTER VII
That night Duane was not troubled by ghosts haunting his waking
and sleeping hours. He awoke feeling bright and eager, and
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