| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Neither!" cried the girl.
As she spoke the single word there was a quick move
of her right hand; Tario, releasing her, staggered back,
both hands pressed to his side. At the same instant
the room filled with bowmen, and then the jeddak of
Lothar sank senseless to the marble floor.
At the instant that he lost consciousness the bowmen
were about to release their arrows into Thuvia's heart.
Involuntarily she gave a single cry for help, though she
knew that not even Carthoris of Helium could save her now.
Then she closed her eyes and waited for the end. No
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: bantering certainty with which he had begun the duel had left
him. He no longer wasted his breath on repartee; no doubt he was
surprised to find Cleggett's strength so nearly equal to his own,
as Cleggett had been astonished to find in Loge so much finesse.
But with a second slight wound Loge began to give ground.
With Cleggett a bout with the foils had always been a duel. It
has been indicated, we believe, that he was of a romantic
disposition and much given to daydreaming; his imagination had
thus made every set-to in the fencing room a veritable mortal
combat to him. Therefore, this was not his first duel; he had
fought hundreds of them. And he fought always on a settled plan,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: importance. Those writings which he cites without mentioning Plato, under
their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral Oration, the Phaedo, etc.,
have an inferior degree of evidence in their favour. They may have been
supposed by him to be the writings of another, although in the case of
really great works, e.g. the Phaedo, this is not credible; those again
which are quoted but not named, are still more defective in their external
credentials. There may be also a possibility that Aristotle was mistaken,
or may have confused the master and his scholars in the case of a short
writing; but this is inconceivable about a more important work, e.g. the
Laws, especially when we remember that he was living at Athens, and a
frequenter of the groves of the Academy, during the last twenty years of
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