| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: He had framed some vague sentence of democratic
sentiment when suddenly doubts overwhelmed him.
His belief in his heroic quality and calling he found had
altogether lost its assured conviction. The picture of
a little strutting futility in a windy waste of
incomprehensible destinies replaced it. Abruptly it was
perfectly clear to him that this revolt against Ostrog was
premature, foredoomed to failure, the impulse of
passionate inadequacy against inevitable things. He
thought of that swift flight of aeroplanes like the swoop
of Fate towards him. He was astonished that he could
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: daughter. You bet!"
"What about Dr. Gould? Don't you think he's worse than
either Westlake or McGanum? He's so cheap--drinking, and
playing pool, and always smoking cigars in such a cocky way----"
"That's all right now! Terry Gould is a good deal of a tin-
horn sport, but he knows a lot about medicine, and don't you
forget it for one second!"
She stared down Guy's grin, and asked more cheerfully, "Is
he honest, too?"
"Ooooooooooo! Gosh I'm sleepy!" He burrowed beneath
the bedclothes in a luxurious stretch, and came up like a diver,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: the ship; so I pulled off my clothes - for the weather was hot to
extremity - and took the water. But when I came to the ship my
difficulty was still greater to know how to get on board; for, as
she lay aground, and high out of the water, there was nothing
within my reach to lay hold of. I swam round her twice, and the
second time I spied a small piece of rope, which I wondered I did
not see at first, hung down by the fore-chains so low, as that with
great difficulty I got hold of it, and by the help of that rope I
got up into the forecastle of the ship. Here I found that the ship
was bulged, and had a great deal of water in her hold, but that she
lay so on the side of a bank of hard sand, or, rather earth, that
Robinson Crusoe |
