| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Jack.
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TIP STUFFS THE SCARECROW WITH DRY STRAW.
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"Go slowly, for now there is no danger of pursuit," said Tip to his steed.
"All right!" responded the creature, in a voice rather gruff.
"Aren't you a little hoarse?" asked the Pumpkinhead politely.
The Saw-Horse gave an angry prance and rolled one knotty eye backward toward
Tip.
"See here," he growled, "can't you protect me from insult?"
"To be sure!" answered Tip, soothingly. "I am sure Jack meant no harm. And
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: monogrammed paper and penned a few lines in his characteristic
though legible writing. Picking up some red sealing wax, he
lighted the small candle in its brass holder which matched the rest
of the desk ornaments, but before heating the wax he looked for his
signet ring, and frowned when he recalled leaving it on his dresser.
He hesitated a moment, then catching sight of a silver seal lying
at the back of the desk he picked it up and moistened the initial.
A few minutes later he blew out the candle, returned the wax and
seal to a pigeon hole, and carefully placed the envelope with its
well stamped letter "B" in his coat pocket, and tramped upstairs.
Helen heard his heavy tread coming down the hall toward her room,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: the French journals, that experiments had
been tried with a female, whose fire-standing
qualities had excited great astonishment. She,
it appears, was placed in a heated oven, into
which live dogs, cats, and rabbits were
conveyed. The poor animals died in a state of
convulsion almost immediately, while the Fire-
queen bore the heat without complaining. In
that instance, however, the heat of the oven
was not so great as that which M. Chabert encountered.
Much of the power to resist greater degrees
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