| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: and Jonas, as a loan, they could not hope to raise this sum in less than
four or five months. So Ona began thinking of seeking employment herself,
saying that if she had even ordinarily good luck, she might be able to
take two months off the time. They were just beginning to adjust
themselves to this necessity, when out of the clear sky there fell a
thunderbolt upon them--a calamity that scattered all their hopes to the
four winds.
About a block away from them there lived another Lithuanian family,
consisting of an elderly widow and one grown son; their name was
Majauszkis, and our friends struck up an acquaintance with them before
long. One evening they came over for a visit, and naturally the first
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: Daylight away from the camp and men and told him things in
confidence.
"She's sure there," he said in conclusion. "I didn't sluice it,
or cradle it. I panned it, all in that sack, yesterday, on the
rim-rock. I tell you, you can shake it out of the grassroots.
And what's on bed-rock down in the bottom of the creek they ain't
no way of tellin'. But she's big, I tell you, big. Keep it
quiet, and locate all you can. It's in spots, but I wouldn't be
none surprised if some of them claims yielded as high as fifty
thousand. The only trouble is that it's spotted."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: eyes. Five years ago deceased applied to the parish for aid. The
relieving officer gave him a 4lb. loaf, and told him if he came
again he should "get the stones." {19} That disgusted deceased, and
he would have nothing to do with them since. They got worse and
worse until last Friday week, when they had not even a half-penny to
buy a candle. Deceased then lay down on the straw, and said he
could not live till morning.--A juror: "You are dying of starvation
yourself, and you ought to go into the house until the summer."--
Witness: "If we went in we should die. When we come out in the
summer we should be like people dropped from the sky. No one would
know us, and we would not have even a room. I could work now if I
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