| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and becoming grandeur, into which diamond-headed pins were stuck
until the whole scintillated as the stars in heaven upon a
moonless night.
But it was a sullen and defiant bride that they led from the high
tower toward the throne room of O-Tar. The corridors were filled
with slaves and warriors, and the women of the palace and the
city who had been commanded to attend the ceremony. All the power
and pride, wealth and beauty of Manator were there.
Slowly Tara, surrounded by a heavy guard of honor, moved along
the marble corridors filled with people. At the entrance to The
Hall of Chiefs E-Thas, the major-domo, received her. The Hall was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: father used to say that much shall have more and little shall
have less."
"Very well," said the king; "the saying has a good sound, but let
us find whether or not it is really true. See; here is a purse
with three hundred pieces of golden money in it. Take it and give
it to the poorest man you know; in a week's time I will come
again, and then you shall tell me whether it has made you or him
the richer."
Now in the town there lived two beggars who were as poor as
poverty itself, and the poorer of the twain was one who used to
sit in rags and tatters on the church step to beg charity of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: open to us. We have told you we are willing to make
peace.'"
He spoke of Chicherin's last note, and said they based all
their hopes on it. Balfour had said somewhere, "Let the fire
burn itself out." That it would not do. But the quickest
way of restoring good conditions in Russia was, of course,
peace and agreement with the Allies. "I am sure we could
come to terms, if they want to come to terms at all.
England and America would be willing, perhaps, if their
hands were not tied by France. But intervention in the
large sense can now hardly be. They must have learnt that
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