| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: size of an ordinary man. It was covered with black spots and I
asked him the reason for them.
"That is what I asked the dealer from whom I bought it," he
replied, "and he told me that those spots indicate where the
needle can be inserted in treatment by acupuncture without
killing the patient."
When a Chinese is ill the doctor generally concludes that the
only way to cure him is to stick a long needle into him and let
out the pain or set up counter irritation. If the patient dies it
is evident he stuck the needle into the wrong spot. And this
chart has been made up from millions of experiments during the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: reached a point of safety from where they left me. He said
that he knew the place well because the defile through which
the Warhoon warriors had passed when they discovered us was
the only one ever used by them when marching to the south.
"Dejah Thoris and Sola entered the hills not five miles
from a great waterway and are now probably quite safe,"
he assured me.
My fellow prisoner was Kantos Kan, a padwar (lieutenant)
in the navy of Helium. He had been a member of the ill-
fated expedition which had fallen into the hands of the
Tharks at the time of Dejah Thoris' capture, and he briefly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: brought up to the use of steam cannot conceive the
vast importance of my bit of venturesomeness to
the Eastern trade of the time. Why, that new route
reduced the average time of a southern passage by
eleven days for more than half the year. Eleven days!
It's on record. But the remarkable thing--speaking
to a sailor--I should say was . . ."
He talked well, without egotism, professionally. The
powerful voice, produced without effort, filled the
bungalow even into the empty rooms with a deep and
limpid resonance, seemed to make a stillness outside;
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