| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Nor was it long before they entered a lofty chamber
at one end of which a man reclined upon a rich couch
that stood upon a high dais.
As the trio approached, the man turned dreamy eyes
sleepily upon them. Twenty feet from the dais their
conductor halted, and, whispering to Thuvia and Carthoris
to follow his example, threw himself headlong to the floor.
Then rising to hands and knees, he commenced crawling
toward the foot of the throne, swinging his head to
and fro and wiggling his body as you have seen a hound
do when approaching its master.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: liberal opinions, and should certainly have joined a secret
society if I had been able to find one. But the whole tale
came home to me; and I was the better able to feel for you in
your various perplexities, as I am myself of somewhat hasty
temper.'
'I do not understand you,' said Mrs. Luxmore, with some marks
of irritation. 'You must have strangely misinterpreted what
I have told you. You fill me with surprise.'
Somerset, alarmed by the old lady's change of tone and
manner, hurried to recant.
'Dear Mrs. Luxmore,' said he, 'you certainly misconstrue my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: experience": I have once jotted in the margin, "HARROWING is the
word"; and when the MOKOLII bore me at last towards the outer
world, I kept repeating to myself, with a new conception of their
pregnancy, those simple words of the song -
" 'Tis the most distressful country that ever yet was seen."
And observe: that which I saw and suffered from was a settlement
purged, bettered, beautified; the new village built, the hospital
and the Bishop-Home excellently arranged; the sisters, the poctor,
and the missionaries, all indefatigable in their noble tasks. It
was a different place when Damien came there and made this great
renunciation, and slept that first night under a tree amidst his
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