| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: beside him all looked in vain for the Emilia they remembered as
a child. Her eyes were more beautiful than ever,--the darkest
violet eyes, that grew luminous with thought and almost black
with sorrow. Her gypsy taste, as everybody used to call it,
still showed itself in the scarlet and dark blue of her dress;
but the clouded gypsy tint had gone from her cheek, and in its
place shone a deep carnation, so hard and brilliant that it
appeared to be enamelled on the surface, yet so firm and
deep-dyed that it seemed as if not even death could ever blanch
it. There is a kind of beauty that seems made to be painted on
ivory, and such was hers. Only the microscopic pencil of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: it into the plank again and offer $100 to any
man who could pull it out with a large pair
of pincers which he proffered for the purpose.
When he had performed these stunts in
various positions, he would bend his body
backward till his head pointed toward the floor, and
in that position push a nail through a one-inch
board held perpendicularly in a metal frame.
I saw no chance for trickery in Le Roy's act.
Another nail act was that of Alexander
Weyer, who, either by superior strength or by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Up from the fain and flaming South
To slake her yearning spirit's drouth
At wisdom's pools, with Solomon.
With gifts of scented sandalwood,
And labdanum, and cassia-bud,
With spicy spoils of Araby
And camel-loads of ivory
And heavy cloths that glanced and shone
With inwrought pearl and beryl-stone
She came, a bold Sabean girl.
And did she find him grave, or gay?
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