| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: indeed, or series of earthquakes, there was, running along between
Lancashire and Yorkshire, which made that vast crack and upheaval
in the rocks, the Craven Fault, running, I believe, for more than
a hundred miles, and lifting the rocks in some places several
hundred feet. That earthquake helped to make the high hills which
overhang Manchester and Preston, and all the manufacturing county
of Lancashire. That earthquake helped to make the perpendicular
cliff at Malham Cove, and many another beautiful bit of scenery.
And that and other earthquakes, by heating the rocks from the
fires below, may have helped to change them from soft coral into
hard crystalline marble as you see them now, just as volcanic heat
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: an idle curiosity that you ponder how many centuries this stag had
carried its free antlers through the wood, and how many summers and
winters had shone and snowed on the imperial badge. If the extent of
solemn wood could thus safeguard a tall stag from the hunter's hounds
and houses, might not you also play hide-and-seek, in these groves,
with all the pangs and trepidations of man's life, and elude Death,
the mighty hunter, for more than the span of human years? Here,
also, crash his arrows; here, in the farthest glade, sounds the
gallop of the pale horse. But he does not hunt this cover with all
his hounds, for the game is thin and small: and if you were but
alert and wary, if you lodged ever in the deepest thickets, you too
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: others, to talk in a light fashion of Eternity without in the
least comprehending what he means by that gigantic term. It is
not too much to say that Eternity, something without beginning
and without end, and involving, it would appear, an everlasting
changelessness, is a state beyond human comprehension. As a
matter of fact we mortals do not think in constellations, so to
speak, or in aeons, but by the measures of our own small earth and
of our few days thereon. We cannot really conceive of an
existence stretching over even one thousand years, such as that
which Oro claimed and the Bible accords to a certain early race
of men, omitting of course his two thousand five hundred
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