| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: anything to eat since yestiday--except mineral water."
A gaunt soldierly-looking young man with long lean legs in riding
gaiters and a bandolier, who had hitherto not spoken, intervened
now on his behalf in a note of confident authority. "That's aw
right," he said. "Give him a feed, Mr. Logan--from me. I
want to hear more of that story of his. We'll see his machine
afterwards. If you ask me, I should say it's a remarkably
interesting accident had dropped this gentleman here. I guess we
requisition that flying-machine--if we find it--,for local
defence."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 23: 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Exodus 23: 26 None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Exodus 23: 27 I will send My terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
Exodus 23: 28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Exodus 23: 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
Exodus 23: 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus 23: 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus 23: 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus 23: 33 They shall not dwell in thy land--lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods--for they will be a snare unto thee.
Exodus 24: 1 Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: "So for twenty years altogether--counting nine years in England--
I have been going on; and there is still something in everything I do
that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort.
Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it; but always
I fall short of the things I dream. The human shape I can get now,
almost with ease, so that it is lithe and graceful, or thick and strong;
but often there is trouble with the hands and the claws,--painful things,
that I dare not shape too freely. But it is in the subtle grafting
and reshaping one must needs do to the brain that my trouble lies.
The intelligence is often oddly low, with unaccountable blank ends,
unexpected gaps. And least satisfactory of all is something that I
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