| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: once joined on to that low island on our left.
What, that long bank of stones, with a house on it?
That is no house. That is a square lump of mud, the last
remaining bit of earth which was once the moraine of a glacier.
Every year it crumbles into the sea more and more; and in a few
years it will be all gone, and nothing left but the great round
boulder-stones which the ice brought down from the glaciers behind
us.
But how does he know that it was once joined to the cliff?
Because that cliff, and the down behind it, where the cows are
fed, is made up, like the island, of nothing but loose earth and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: She shrouded herself, puffing and snorting, in a cloud of steam
at the stove, and eventually extracted a frying-pan full of potatoes
that hissed.
She flourished it. "Come teh yer suppers, now," she cried
with sudden exasperation. "Hurry up, now, er I'll help yeh!"
The children scrambled hastily. With prodigious clatter they
arranged themselves at table. The babe sat with his feet dangling
high from a precarious infant chair and gorged his small stomach.
Jimmie forced, with feverish rapidity, the grease-enveloped pieces
between his wounded lips. Maggie, with side glances of fear of
interruption, ate like a small pursued tigress.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: and a collection of his contributions (with those of Joseph Den-
nie) were published in a volume, at Walpole, in 1801, entitled
'The Spirit of the Farmers' Museum and Lay Preachers' Gazette.'
<4> On October 16th, 1778, the Continental Congress passed
the following resolution:
"Whereas, frequenting play-houses and theatrical entertainments
has a fatal tendency to divest the minds of the people from a
due attention to the means necessary to the defence of their
Country and preservation of their liberties;
"Resolved, That any person holding an office under the United
States who shall act, promote, encourage or attend such play,
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