| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: straight east we would be long past England by this
time. You watch for noon, all of you, and we'll stand
up, and when we can't cast a shadow we'll find that
this Grinnage clock is coming mighty close to marking
twelve. Yes, sir, I think we're in Africa; and it's just
bully."
Jim was gazing down with the glass. He shook his
head and says:
"Mars Tom, I reckon dey's a mistake som'er's.
hain't seen no niggers yit."
"That's nothing; they don't live in the desert.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "You can't make me any more ridiculous than I feel," he answered,
rubbing the lump on his forehead reflectively. "And if this is the
accepted romantic programme--a duel over a girl, and the girl
rushing into the arms of the winner--why, I shall not make a bigger
ass of myself by going in for it."
"I thought you'd jump at it," she confessed, with a naivete he
could not but question, for he thought he saw a roguish gleam in
her eyes.
"My conception of love must differ from yours then," he said. "I
should want a woman to marry me for love of me, and not out of
romantic admiration because I was lucky enough to drill a hole in a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: looking for nuts; he seemed
to be sniffing around.
CHIPPY HACKEE went
home in a hurry!
AND when Chippy Hackee
got home, he found he
had caught a cold in his head;
and he was more uncomfortable
still.
And now Timmy and
Goody Tiptoes keep their
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