| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: got to ask you something."
"All right. You can talk five minutes."
"My wife, Doc, how is she? You took her to your
house, John told me. She'll get well?"
"Yes. She's rapidly recovering now."
"What does she say about me?"
"She thinks you're dead."
"You haven't told her?"
"No."
"Why?"
"She had all she could stand----"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: as some men say, that men may not live there, but for because that
the women will not suffer no men amongst them to be their
sovereigns.
For sometime there was a king in that country. And men married, as
in other countries. And so befell that the king had war with them
of Scythia, the which king hight Colopeus, that was slain in
battle, and all the good blood of his realm. And when the queen
and all the other noble ladies saw that they were all widows, and
that all the royal blood was lost, they armed them and, as
creatures out of wit, they slew all the men of the country that
were left; for they would that all the women were widows as the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: He has certainly made good his escape by now."
"Smith," I said, somewhat crestfallen, "why are you detaining
this gypsy woman?"
"Gypsy woman!" he laughed, hugging her tightly as she made
an impatient movement. "Use your eyes, old man."
He jerked the frowsy wig from her head, and beneath was a cloud
of disordered hair that shimmered in the sunlight.
"A wet sponge will do the rest," he said.
Into my eyes, widely opened in wonder, looked the dark eyes
of the captive; and beneath the disguise I picked out the charming
features of the slave girl. There were tears on the whitened lashes,
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