| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: had their descent from the foul fiend, without whose aid you
would never have been able to maintain this blessed land of
Palestine against so many valiant soldiers of God. I speak not
thus of thee in particular, Saracen, but generally of thy people
and religion. Strange is it to me, however, not that you should
have the descent from the Evil One, but that you should boast of
it."
"From whom should the bravest boast of descending, saving from
him that is bravest?" said the Saracen; "from whom should the
proudest trace their line so well as from the Dark Spirit, which
would rather fall headlong by force than bend the knee by his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: sage. "Some other time," he said; and Hermann
nudged me angrily--I don't know why. The girl
alone in the cabin sat sewing at some distance from
the table. Falk stopped short in the doorway.
Without a word, without a sign, without the slight-
est inclination of his bony head, by the silent in-
tensity of his look alone, he seemed to lay his her-
culean frame at her feet. Her hands sank slowly
on her lap, and raising her clear eyes, she let her
soft, beaming glance enfold him from head to foot
like a slow and pale caress. He was very hot when
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: hunted man.
"My name's Luke Stevens, an' I hail from the river. Who're
you?" said this stranger.
Duane was silent.
"I reckon you're Buck Duane," went on Stevens. "I heerd you was
a damn bad man with a gun."
This time Duane laughed, not at the doubtful compliment, but at
the idea that the first outlaw he met should know him. Here was
proof of how swiftly facts about gun-play traveled on the Texas
border.
"Wal, Buck," said Stevens, in a friendly manner, "I ain't
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