| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall,
in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives,
open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted.
The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President,
if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed;
and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal
Number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately
chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have
a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House
shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President,
the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State
The United States Constitution |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: silent verdict. Dick might be dead to them, but he was living.
He looked around the room defiantly, resentfully. Of all of them
he was the only one to have faith, and he was bound to a chair.
He knew them. They would sit down supinely and grieve, while time
passed and Dick fought his battle alone.
No, by God, he would not be bound to a chair. He raised himself
and stood, swaying on his shaking legs.
"You've given up," he said scornfully. "You make a few days'
search, and then you quit. It's easy to say he's dead, and so you
say he's dead. I'm going out there myself, and I'll make a search - "
He collapsed into the chair again, and looked at them with shamed,
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: Whatever might be the supernatural influences among these
mountains, the travellers found their physical difficulties hard
to cope with. They made repeated attempts to find a passage
through or over the chain, but were as often turned back by
impassable barriers. Sometimes a defile seemed to open a
practicable path, but it would terminate in some wild chaos of
rocks and cliffs, which it was impossible to climb. The animals
of these solitary regions were different from those they had been
accustomed to. The black-tailed deer would bound up the ravines
on their approach, and the bighorn would gaze fearlessly down
upon them from some impending precipice, or skip playfully from
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