| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: people in the world, but now, if I see a boy or man, I
see only what George was or will be at his age; if I read
a book, it only suggests what George will say of it. I
am like one of those plants that have lost their own sap
and color, and suck in their life from another. It
scares me sometimes."
Miss Vance smiled with polite contempt. No doubt Frances
had a shrewd business faculty, but in other matters she
was not ten years old.
"And George will marry some time," she said curtly.
"Oh, I hope so! And soon. Then I shall have a daughter.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: quite as active and strong as he, and clambered from rock to rock
and over the shattered scantling of the flume with the vigor and
agility of a young boy. She muddied her shoes to the very tops
scratched her hands, tore her skirt, and even twisted her ankle;
but her little eyes were never so bright, nor was the pink flush
of her cheeks ever more adorable. And she was never done talking--
a veritable chatterbox. She saw everything and talked about
everything she saw, quite indifferent as to whether or no Condy
listened. Now it was a queer bit of seaweed, now it was a group
of gulls clamoring over a dead fish, now a purple starfish, now a
breaker of unusual size. Her splendid vitality carried her away.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of such immeasurable suffering upon Barsoom.
Sooner than I had expected I came to what appeared to
me to be a sudden exit into the temple above. It was at the
right side of the corridor, which ran on, probably, to other
entrances to the pile above.
To me one point was as good as another. What knew I
where any of them led! And so without waiting to be again
discovered and thwarted, I ran quickly up the short, steep
incline and pushed open the doorway at its end.
The portal swung slowly in, and before it could be
slammed against me I sprang into the chamber beyond.
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