| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: until at last we found a salmon that knew even less about the
niceties of salmon-fishing than I did. He seized the fly firmly,
before I could pull it away, and then, in a moment, I found myself
attached to a creature with the strength of a whale and the agility
of a flying-fish. He led me rushing up and down the bank like a
madman. He played on the surface like a whirlwind, and sulked at
the bottom like a stone. He meditated, with ominous delay, in the
middle of the deepest pool, and then, darting across the river,
flung himself clean out of water and landed far up on the green
turf of the opposite shore. My heart melted like a snowflake in
the sea, and I thought that I had lost him forever. But he rolled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Be still adorned with laurel victory:
Fight and be valiant, conquer where thou comest!
AUDLEY.
Edward Plantagenet, prince of Wales,
Receive this lance into thy manly hand;
Use it in fashion of a brazen pen,
To draw forth bloody stratagems in France,
And print thy valiant deeds in honor's book:
Fight and be valiant, vanquish where thou comest!
ARTOIS.
Edward Plantagenet, prince of Wales,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: force always remained less than twenty-
five pounds, despite the very determined
and sincere stresses of the two men, who,
unbeknown to themselves, were exerting
their strength in a HORIZONTAL direction.
In the experiment represented in Fig.
3, which recalls to mind the first one (Fig.
1), the two men are requested to hold the
stick firmly and immovable, but the slightest
pressure upon the extremity suffices to
move the arms and body of the subject.
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