| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and saved the life of Leopold of Lutha. Just before he gave
the word to fire Maenck paused and laughed aloud at the
pitiable figure trembling and whining against the stone wall
before him, and during that pause a commotion arose at
the tower doorway behind the firing squad.
Maenck turned to discover the cause of the interruption,
and as he turned he saw the figure of the king leaping to-
ward him with leveled revolver. At the king's back a com-
pany of troopers of the Royal Horse Guard was pouring
into the courtyard.
Maenck snatched his own revolver from his hip and fired
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: our notion of the cow-pony has become that of a lean,
rangy, wiry, thin-necked, scrawny beast. Such may
be found. But the average good cow-pony is apt
to be an exceedingly handsome animal, clean-built,
graceful. This is natural, when you stop to think of
it, for he is descended direct from Moorish and Arabian
stock.
Certain characteristics he possesses beyond the
capabilities of the ordinary horse. The most marvelous
to me of these is his sure-footedness. Let me give
you a few examples.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: any." Now why in the name of common sense should he have made that
qualification unless there had been, not only idolatry, but idolatry
fulsome enough to irritate Jonson into an express disavowal of it?
Jonson, the bricklayer, must have felt sore sometimes when Shakespear
spoke and wrote of bricklayers as his inferiors. He must have felt it
a little hard that being a better scholar, and perhaps a braver and
tougher man physically than Shakespear, he was not so successful or so
well liked. But in spite of this he praised Shakespear to the utmost
stretch of his powers of eulogy: in fact, notwithstanding his
disclaimer, he did not stop "this side idolatry." If, therefore, even
Jonson felt himself forced to clear himself of extravagance and
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