| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: his legs. He'll topple over into the pool. Not one horse in a thousand could
do that stunt."
"And Comanche is that very horse," she answered. "Watch him."
She gave the animal his head, and he leaped cleanly and accurately to the
ledge, striking with feet close together on the narrow space. On the instant
he struck, Lute lightly touched his neck with the rein, impelling him to the
left; and in that instant, tottering on the insecure footing, with front feet
slipping over into the pool beyond, he lifted on his hind legs, with a half
turn, sprang to the left, and dropped squarely down to the tiny gravel bed. An
easy jump brought him across the stream, and Lute angled him up the bank and
halted before her lover.
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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: the Zeppelins are equipped are provided merely for illuminating
a supposed position. They are not brought into service until
the navigator concludes that he has arrived above the desired
point: the ray of light which is then projected is merely to
assist the crew in the discharge of the missiles of destruction.
The Zeppelin, however, owing to its speed, both in the horizontal
and vertical planes, is essentially a unit for daylight
operations. The other airships which Germany possesses, and
which for the most part are of the non-rigid type, are condemned
to daylight operations from the character of their design. Owing
to their low speeds they may be dismissed as impossible aerial
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: to carry the infant back to its mother who had fainted, and he pointed
to her condition reprovingly, to warn the count of the results of his
violence. The countess had heard all; for in many of the great crises
of life the human organs acquire an otherwise unknown delicacy. But
the cries of the child, laid beside her on the bed, restored her to
life as if by magic; she fancied she heard the voices of angels, when,
under cover of the whimperings of the babe, the bonesetter said in her
ear:--
"Take care of him, and he'll live a hundred years. Beauvouloir knows
what he is talking about."
A celestial sigh, a silent pressure of the hand were the reward of the
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