| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: they made rapid progress.
While this work was going on General Guph started out alone to visit
the Chief of the Whimsies.
These Whimsies were curious people who lived in a retired country of
their own. They had large, strong bodies, but heads so small that
they were no bigger than door-knobs. Of course, such tiny heads could
not contain any great amount of brains, and the Whimsies were so
ashamed of their personal appearance and lack of commonsense that
they wore big heads made of pasteboard, which they fastened over their
own little heads. On these pasteboard heads they sewed sheep's wool
for hair, and the wool was colored many tints--pink, green and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: human race deteriorates under war. If this be so, if we have sent
forth the best we bred and gone on breeding from the men who were
left, and since we have done this for ten thousand millenniums and
are what we splendidly are to-day, then what unthinkably splendid
and god-like beings must have been our forebears those ten
thousand millenniums ago! Unfortunately for Doctor Jordan's
theory, those ancient forebears cannot live up to this fine
reputation. We know them for what they were, and before the
monkey cage of any menagerie we catch truer glimpses and hints and
resemblances of what our ancestors really were long and long ago.
And by killing, incessant killing, by making a shambles of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: proposed, was heard as though it were something long familiar,
and the very thing that was not needed. But Alexey Alexandrovitch
was not aware of this, and, on the contrary, being cut off from
direct participation in governmental activity, he saw more
clearly than ever the errors and defects in the action of others,
and thought it his duty to point out means for their correction.
Shortly after his separation from his wife, he began writing his
first note on the new judicial procedure, the first of the
endless series of notes he was destined to write in the future.
Alexey Alexandrovitch did not merely fail to observe his hopeless
position in the official world, he was not merely free from
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