| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: up at them. Then he stooped and lifting the girl to his shoulder
waddled off through the jungle. In his wake followed the angry mob.
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Korak, returning from the hunt, heard the jabbering of the
excited monkeys. He knew that something was seriously amiss.
Histah, the snake, had doubtless coiled his slimy folds about
some careless Manu. The youth hastened ahead. The monkeys
were Meriem's friends. He would help them if he could.
He traveled rapidly along the middle terrace. In the tree
by Meriem's shelter he deposited his trophies of the hunt and
called aloud to her. There was no answer. He dropped quickly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: turned northward towards Notting Hill.
The keepers were closing Kensington Gardens, and he would have
to skirt the Park to Victoria Gate and go home by the Bayswater
Road....
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As he walked he rearranged in his mind this long-overdue
apology for his faith that he was presently to make to his
family. There was no one to interrupt him and nothing to
embarrass him, and so he was able to set out everything very
clearly and convincingly. There was perhaps a disposition to
digress into rather voluminous subordinate explanations, on such
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: to attribute to the principles themselves, and what to refer to
the passions which they bring into collision. Such, however, is
not the case in America; there the people reigns without any
obstacle, and it has no perils to dread and no injuries to
avenge. In America, democracy is swayed by its own free
propensities; its course is natural and its activity is
unrestrained; the United States consequently afford the most
favorable opportunity of studying its real character. And to no
people can this inquiry be more vitally interesting than to the
French nation, which is blindly driven onwards by a daily and
irresistible impulse towards a state of things which may prove
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