| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: lay my hand, thrust it with sufficient strength, it would leave
the left-hand road and take the right-hand road."
"And if it did, what then; Lord Oro?"
"Then within an hour or so, when it had travelled far enough
upon its way, the balance of the earth would be changed, and
great things would happen in the world above, as once they
happened in bygone days. Now do you understand, Humphrey?"
"Good Heavens! Yes, I understand now," I answered. "But
fortunately there is no such giant."
Oro broke into a mocking laugh and his grey old face lit up
with a fiendish exultation, as he cried:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: French aerial service, which had proved the fastest airship in
commission, and which also was a product of the Astra Company.
But this fine craft was completely outclassed by the puny
Astra-Torres.
The builders and the inventor were now additionally anxious
to illustrate more emphatically the features of this design and
to build a far larger vessel. The opportunity was offered by the
British Government, which had been following the experiments with
the small Astra-Torres in France. An order was given for a
vessel of 282,500 cubic feet displacement; in this instance it
was ranged against another formidable rival--the Parseval. But
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: were the others who shapes had been changed. The Nome detested
anything in the way of a bird, because birds lay eggs and eggs are
feared by all the Nomes more than anything else in the world. A goose
is a foolish bird, too, and Ruggedo was dreadfully ashamed of the
shape he was forced to wear. And it would make him shudder to reflect
that the Goose might lay an egg!
So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around
him. If an egg touched him he could then be destroyed, and almost any
animal he met in the forest might easily conquer him. And that would
be the end of old Ruggedo the Nome.
Aside from these fears, however, he was filled with anger against
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