| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: acquitted herself of a neat little discourse of congratulation.
"I shall be so glad to know you better," she said;
"I have seen so much less of you than I should have liked.
Naturally; now I see the reason why! You will love me a little,
won't you? I think I may say I gain on being known."
And terminating these observations with the softest cadence
of her voice, the Baroness imprinted a sort of grand official
kiss upon Gertrude's forehead.
Increased familiarity had not, to Gertrude's imagination,
diminished the mysterious impressiveness of Eugenia's personality,
and she felt flattered and transported by this little ceremony.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: the pressure on the up-strokes. [See next page.]
"Huck Finn and
Tom Sawyer swears
they will keep mum
about This and They
wish They may Drop
down dead in Their
Tracks if They ever
Tell and Rot.
Huckleberry was filled with admiration of Tom's
facility in writing, and the sublimity of his language.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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