| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: good, running between thick groves of cocoa-palm and breadfruit. A
few hundred yards along this the white man passed a picket of four
armed warriors, with red handkerchiefs and their faces blackened in
the form of a full beard, the Mataafa rallying signs for the day; a
little farther on, some fifty; farther still, a hundred; and at
last a quarter of a mile of them sitting by the wayside armed and
blacked.
Near by, in the verandah of a house on a knoll, he found Mataafa
seated in white clothes, a Winchester across his knees. His men,
he said, were still arriving from behind, and there was a turning
movement in operation beyond the Fuisa, so that the Tamaseses
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: himself in London - where, indeed, he had been in almost hourly
expectation of arrest and such short shrift as poor Disney had - should
be acknowledged in such terms as these, was something that turned him
almost sick with disgust. To what manner of men had he leagued himself?
He looked Grey steadily between the eyes.
"I mind me of an occasion on which such a charge of foolish clemency
might, indeed - and with greater justice - have been levelled against
His Majesty," said he and his calm was almost terrible.
His lordship grew pale at the obvious allusion to Monmouth's mild
treatment of him for his cowardice at Bridport, and his eyes were as
baleful as Wilding's own at that moment. But before he could speak,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Flatheads have their dwellings. They also are magic-
workers and usually keep to themselves and allow no one
from outside to visit them. I have learned that the
Flatheads number about one hundred people -- men, women
and children -- while the Skeezers number just one
hundred and one."
"What did they quarrel about, and why do they wish to
fight one another?" was Ozma's next question.
"I cannot tell your Majesty that," said Glinda.
"But see here!" cried Dorothy, "it's against the law
for anyone but Glinda and the Wizard to work magic in
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