| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White:
In ten minutes Charley pronounced the irons ready. Homer,
Wooden, and old California John rode in among the cattle. The
rest of the men arose and stretched their legs and advanced. The
Cattleman and I climbed to the top bar of the gate, where we
roosted, he with his tally-book on his knee.
Each rider swung his rope above his head with one hand, keeping
the broad loop open by a skilful turn of the wrist at the end of
each revolution. In a moment Homer leaned forward and threw. As
the loop settled, he jerked sharply upward, exactly as one would
strike to hook a big fish. This tightened the loop and prevented
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the side.[36] The eyes of the large kind are slightly inclined to
gray;[37] of the smaller, bluish. The black about the tips of the ears
is largely spread in the one, but slightly in the other species. Of
these two species, the smaller is to be met with in most of the
islands, desert and inhabited alike. As regards numbers they are more
abundant in the islands than on the mainland; the fact being that in
most of these there are no foxes to attack and carry off either the
grown animal or its young; nor yet eagles, whose habitat is on lofty
mountains rather than the lower type of hills which characterise the
islands.[38] Again, sportsmen seldom visit the desert islands, and as
to those which are inhabited, the population is but thinly scattered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: From the ground
Hellish vapours rise around.
CHORUS OF CHRISTIAN WATCHERS.
Terrible enchanted forms,
Dragon-women, men-wolf swarms!
Wilder yet the sounds are growing!
See, the archfiend comes, all-glowing!
From the ground
Hellish vapours rise around!
CHORUS OF DRUIDS.
As from the smoke is freed the blaze,
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