| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: this frightful place. It's just as I told you it was; just as I
always heard."
"We can't leave this woman, my boy," replied Bridge.
"She isn't dead. We can't leave her, and we can't take
her out into the storm in her condition. We must stay.
Come! buck up. There's nothing to fear from a dead
man, and--"
He never finished the sentence. From the depths of
the cellar came the sound of a clanking chain. Some-
thing scratched heavily upon the wooden steps. What-
ever it was it was evidently ascending, while behind it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: floated from a staff. The more Gideon looked at it, the more
there mingled with his disgust a sense of impotent surprise. It
was very like his uncle's houseboat; it was exceedingly like--it
was identical. But for two circumstances, he could have sworn it
was the same. The first, that his uncle had gone to Maidenhead,
might be explained away by that flightiness of purpose which is
so common a trait among the more than usually manly. The second,
however, was conclusive: it was not in the least like Mr
Bloomfield to display a banner on his floating residence; and if
he ever did, it would certainly be dyed in hues of emblematical
propriety. Now the Squirradical, like the vast majority of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: of various sizes, miniature bowling pins, and tops. Muller took up
one of the latter.
"How very clever you are, and how industrious," he exclaimed,
sitting down again and turning the top in his hands. It was covered
with gray varnish with tiny little yellow stripes painted on it.
Towards the lower point a little bit of the varnish had been broken
off and the reddish wood underneath was visible. The top was much
better constructed than the cheap toys sold in the village. It was
hollow and contained in its interior a mechanism started by a
pressure on the upper end. Once set in motion the little top spun
about the room for some time.
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