| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: this sea to that sea?
But nothing did we get save that Yucatan was a great
country with sea here and sea there. ``A point of the main
like Cuba!'' said the Admiral. Behind it, to the north of it,
it seemed to us, the greater country where were the gold,
the rich clothing, the temples. But we made out that Yucatan
from sea to sea was many days' march. And as for
the country beyond it, that went on, they thought, forever.
They called this country Anahuac and they meant the same
that years afterward Hernando Cortes found. But we did
not know this. We did not know that strange people and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: and then interrupted her own singing to attempt a laugh. But the
laugh was hysterical. The darkness, however, favored her; and,
seizing her sister's arm, she forced her along, whispering, "Come,
come, come!" Lottchen could not be so dull as entirely to
misunderstand her. She suffered herself to be led up the first
flight of stairs, at the head of which was a room looking into the
street. In this they would have gained an asylum, for the door had
a strong bolt. But, as they were on the last steps of the landing,
they could hear the hard breathing and long strides of the murderer
ascending behind them. He had watched them through a crevice, and
had been satisfied by the hysterical laugh of Louisa that she had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And for that cause I train'd thee to my house.
Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,
For in my gallery thy picture hangs:
But now the substance shall endure the like,
And I will chain these legs and arms of thine,
That hast by tyranny these many years
Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
And sent our sons and husbands captivate.
TALBOT.
Ha, ha, ha!
COUNTESS.
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