| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: nothing to him. That fact gave him the superhuman nerve to face
the peril of this ride. Because of his disregard of self he was
able to operate the machine, to choose the power, the speed, the
guidance, the going with the best judgment and highest efficiency
possible. Madeline knew he would get her to Mezquital in time to
save Stewart or he would kill her in the attempt.
The white, narrow road flashed out of the foreground, slipped
with inconceivable rapidity under the car. When she marked a
clump of cactus far ahead it seemed to shoot at her, to speed
behind her even the instant she noticed it. Nevertheless,
Madeline knew Link was not putting the car to its limit. Swiftly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: needful, could be done, and all thoughts were supposed to be
centred in this mockery of war. A few days later, by a regrettable
accident, a man was killed; it was felt at once the thing had gone
too far, and the quarrel was instantly patched up. But the more
serious wars were prosecuted in a similar spirit; a gift of pigs
and a feast made their inevitable end; the killing of a single man
was a great victory, and the murder of defenceless solitaries
counted a heroic deed.
The foot of the cliffs, about all these islands, is the place of
fishing. Between Taahauku and Atuona we saw men, but chiefly
women, some nearly naked, some in thin white or crimson dresses,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: it; and he not only saw that, but saw several things more, things
odd enough in the light of the fact that at the moment some
accident of grouping brought them face to face he was still merely
fumbling with the idea that any contact between them in the past
would have had no importance. If it had had no importance he
scarcely knew why his actual impression of her should so seem to
have so much; the answer to which, however, was that in such a life
as they all appeared to be leading for the moment one could but
take things as they came. He was satisfied, without in the least
being able to say why, that this young lady might roughly have
ranked in the house as a poor relation; satisfied also that she was
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