| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: bullet as it fanned his cheek. With an agile leap he gained the shelter of a
tree, from behind which he peeped to see who had shot at him. He was just in
time to detect the dark form of an Indian dart behind the foliage an hundred
yards down the path. Joe expected to see other Indians, and to hear more
shots, but he was mistaken. Evidently the savage was alone, for the tree Joe
had taken refuge behind was scarcely large enough to screen his body, which
disadvantage the other Indians would have been quick to note.
Joe closely watched the place where his assailant had disappeared, and
presently saw a dark hand, then a naked elbow, and finally the ramrod of a
rifle. The savage was reloading. Soon a rifle-barrel protruded from behind the
tree. With his heart beating like a trip-hammer, and the skin tightening on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: because he hated the Moon?' said Una.
'That is as plain as the pikestaff with which Blagge's men
pushed me forth,'Mr Culpeper answered. 'I'll prove it. Why had
the plague not broken out at the blacksmith's shop in Munday's
Lane? Because, as I've shown you, forges and smithies belong
naturally to Mars, and, for his honour's sake, Mars 'ud keep 'em
clean from the creatures of the Moon. But was it like, think you,
that he'd come down and rat-catch in general for lazy, ungrateful
mankind? That were working a willing horse to death. So, then,
you can see that the meaning of the blazing star above him when
he set was simply this: "Destroy and burn the creatures Of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: an unlimited extent, amid the hilarious applause of the spectators.
In the evening there was more music, and the peasants danced in the
square, the women quietly and rather heavily, but the men with
amazing agility, slapping the soles of their shoes with their
hands, or turning cartwheels in front of their partners. At dark
the festivities closed with a display of fireworks; there were
rockets and bombs and pin-wheels; and the boys had tiny red and
blue lights which they held until their fingers were burned, just
as boys do in America; and there was a general hush of wonder as a
particularly brilliant rocket swished into the dark sky; and when
it burst into a rain of serpents, the crowd breathed out its
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