| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: surmounted by a mass of yellow hair.
The incident gave me considerable food for speculation, since
if I were right in the conclusion induced by the cursory glimpse
I had had of the spy, then Matai Shang and Thurid must suspect my
identity, and if that were true not even the service I had rendered
Kulan Tith could save me from his religious fanaticism.
But never did vague conjecture or fruitless fears for the future
lie with sufficient weight upon my mind to keep me from my rest,
and so tonight I threw myself upon my sleeping silks and furs
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: this kind: the spirit of inquiry has only come upon communities
in their latter days; and when they at length contemplated their
origin, time had already obscured it, or ignorance and pride
adorned it with truth-concealing fables.
America is the only country in which it has been possible to
witness the natural and tranquil growth of society, and where the
influences exercised on the future condition of states by their
origin is clearly distinguishable. At the period when the peoples
of Europe landed in the New World their national characteristics
were already completely formed; each of them had a physiognomy of
its own; and as they had already attained that stage of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: seek to occupy a leading position would be daily defiance to the
scaffold; yet she pursued her even way. Sustained by her motherly
courage, she won the affections of the poor by comforting
indiscriminately all miseries, and she made herself necessary to the
rich by assisting their pleasures. She received the procureur of the
commune, the mayor, the judge of the district court, the public
prosecutor, and even the judges of the revolutionary tribunal.
The first four of these personages, being bachelors, courted her with
the hope of marriage, furthering their cause by either letting her see
the evils they could do her, or those from which they could protect
her. The public prosecutor, previously an attorney at Caen, and the
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