| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: sleeping-mats to Mulinuu: a most unwelcome addition to a party
already suffering from want. By the 20th, they were being watered
from the ADLER. On the 24th the Manono fleet of sixteen large
boats, fortified and rendered unmanageable with tons of firewood,
passed to windward to intercept supplies from Atua. By the 27th
the hungry garrison flocked in great numbers to draw rations at the
German firm. On the 28th the same business was repeated with a
different issue. Mataafas crowded to look on; words were
exchanged, blows followed; sticks, stones, and bottles were caught
up; the detested Brandeis, at great risk, threw himself between the
lines and expostulated with the Mataafas - his only personal
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
The Gift of the Magi |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Be calm? Was I unpleasant?
Then I'll be more discreet,
And grant you, for the present,
The balm of my defeat:
What she, with all her striving,
Could not have brought about,
You've done. Your own contriving
Has put the last light out.
"If she were the whole story,
If worse were not behind,
I'd creep with you to glory,
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