| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: cheek against hers. She relaxed against him and her arms went
round his body. The comfort of his arms helped dry her sudden
tears. Ah, it was good to be in his arms, without passion, without
tenseness, to be there as a loved friend. Only Ashley who shared
her memories and her youth, who knew her beginnings and her present
could understand.
She heard the sound of feet outside but paid little heed, thinking
it was the teamsters going home. She stood for a moment, listening
to the slow beat of Ashley's heart. Then suddenly he wrenched
himself from her, confusing her by his violence. She looked up
into his face in surprise but he was not looking at her. He was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: and the other with nitrogen, on the supervention of the magnetic
force, the oxygen was pulled towards the axis, the nitrogen being
pushed out. By turning the torsion-head they could be restored to
their primitive position of equidistance, where it is evident the
action of the glass envelopes was annulled. The amount of torsion
necessary to re-establish equidistance expressed the magnetic
difference of the substances compared.
And then he compared oxygen with oxygen at different pressures.
One of his tubes contained the gas at the pressure of 30 inches of
mercury, another at a pressure of 15 inches of mercury, a third at a
pressure of 10 inches, while a fourth was exhausted as far as a good
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: The estimation in which these gentlemen were held, according to
one of the most scientific exponents of the Gun Club, was
"proportional to the masses of their guns, and in the direct
ratio of the square of the distances attained by their projectiles."
The Gun Club once founded, it is easy to conceive the result of
the inventive genius of the Americans. Their military weapons
attained colossal proportions, and their projectiles, exceeding
the prescribed limits, unfortunately occasionally cut in two
some unoffending pedestrians. These inventions, in fact, left
far in the rear the timid instruments of European artillery.
It is but fair to add that these Yankees, brave as they have
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