| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: to see how much of our rampart remained. The detachment
of the plaster had left a vertical slit open in the debris, and
by raising myself cautiously across a beam I was able to see
out of this gap into what had been overnight a quiet suburban
roadway. Vast, indeed, was the change that we beheld.
The fifth cylinder must have fallen right into the midst
of the house we had first visited. The building had vanished,
completely smashed, pulverised, and dispersed by the blow.
The cylinder lay now far beneath the original foundations--
deep in a hole, already vastly larger than the pit I had
looked into at Woking. The earth all round it had splashed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: reciting a rigmarole by which cannibals are supposed to make
their human feast on a sacred rite. As they danced about me in a
circle, they sang:
"Is it an ox? Him-yah, him-yah." And they jabbed their spears
into me. Some of the supers jabbed me pretty hard, among them
Babe Durgon, who delighted in tormenting me.
"Is it a sheep? Him-yah, him-yah." Again they jabbed me, and I
was so mad I was cussing them under my breath.
"Is it a pig? Him-yah, him-yah."
The audience was breathless with tense excitement.
"Is it a goat?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: LYSIMACHUS.
'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea. Well, there's
for you: leave us.
BAWD.
I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and I'll have done
presently.
LYSIMACHUS.
I beseech you, do.
BAWD.
[To Marina.]
First, I would have you note, this is an honourable man.
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