| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Fortune purred his name for the other's benefit, and assisted
understandingly. The bunk was built against a side and end of the
cabin. It was a rude affair, the bottom being composed of drift-
wood logs overlaid with moss. At the foot the rough ends of these
timbers projected in an uneven row. From the side next the wall
Uri ripped back the moss and removed three of the logs. The
jagged ends he sawed off and replaced so that the projecting row
remained unbroken. Fortune carried in sacks of flour from the
cache and piled them on the floor beneath the aperture. On these
Uri laid a pair of long sea-bags, and over all spread several
thicknesses of moss and blankets. Upon this Fortune could lie,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and turned their mounts' heads toward the north. At the
side of one trotted a led horse.
As they passed beneath the glare of an arc-light before a
cafe at the side of the public square, a diner sitting at a
table upon the walk spied the tall figure and the bearded
face of him who rode a few feet in advance of his com-
panion. Leaping to his feet the man waved his napkin above
his head.
"Long live the king!" he cried. "God save Leopold of
Lutha!"
And amid the din of cheering that followed, Barney
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: to God. The result was virtue and piety, and that manly
independence of soul which is thought compatible with hearty
loyalty, in a country labouring under heavy disadvantages, long
divided almost into two hostile camps, two rival races.
And the good influence was soon manifest, not only in those who
sided with Buchanan and his friends, but in those who most opposed
them. The Roman Catholic preachers, who at first asserted Mary's
right to impurity while they allowed her guilt, grew silent for
shame, and set themselves to assert her entire innocence; while the
Scots who have followed their example have, to their honour, taken
up the same ground. They have fought Buchanan on the ground of
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