| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: He went outside the station and stared at his car. He had to
go somewhere. Of course! down into Cornwall to Martin's
cottage. He had to go down to her and be kind and comforting
about that carbuncle. To be kind? . . . If this thwarted
feeling broke out into anger he might be tempted to take it
out of Martin. That at any rate he must not do. He had always
for some inexplicable cause treated Martin badly. Nagged her
and blamed her and threatened her. That must stop now. No
shadow of this affair must lie on Martin. . . . And Martin
must never have a suspicion of any of this. . . .
The image of Martin became very vivid in his mind. He thought
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his captor felt safe in turning him loose in Oo-oh--he wondered if
that was the name of the country or the city and if there were
other cities like this upon the island.
Slowly he descended the ladder to the seemingly deserted alley
which was paved with what appeared to be large, round cobblestones.
He looked again at the smooth, worn pavement, and a rueful grin
crossed his features--the alley was paved with skulls. "The City
of Human Skulls," mused Bradley. "They must have been collectin'
'em since Adam," he thought, and then he crossed and entered the
building through the doorway that had been pointed out to him.
Inside he found a large room in which were many Wieroos seated
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: the senses"; for it is only long familiarity with science
which teaches us that the evidence of the senses is
trustworthy only in so far as it is correctly interpreted by
reason. For the truth of his belief in the ghosts of men and
beasts, trees and axes, the savage has undeniably the evidence
of his senses which have so often seen, heard, and handled
these other selves.
[175] Here, as usually, the doctrine of metempsychosis comes
in to complete the proof. "Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in
Keeling Island, who had a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like
a doll; this spoon had been carried to the grave of a dead
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