| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: nature of the danger that surrounds them.
SENATOR KERN, OF INDIANA--There can be no denial of the fact that
it is time to look at the serious problems presented in the play
with an open mind.
Brieux has been hailed by Bernard Shaw as "incomparably the
greatest writer France has produced since Moliere," and perhaps
no writer ever wielded his pen more earnestly in the service of
the race. To quote from an article by Edwin E. Slosson in the
INDEPENDENT:
Brieux in not one who believes that social evils are to be cured
by laws and yet more laws. He believes that most of the trouble
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: though he had lived for centuries and for centuries been
dead. The buildings and the people in the street became
incredibly small, and far-away, and bright; London sounded in
his ears stilly, like a whisper; and the rattle of the cab
that nearly charged him down, was like a sound from Africa.
Meanwhile, he was conscious of a strange abstraction from
himself; and heard and felt his footfalls on the ground, as
those of a very old, small, debile and tragically fortuned
man, whom he sincerely pitied.
As he was thus moving forward past the National Gallery, in a
medium, it seemed, of greater rarity and quiet than ordinary
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: had not entered his mind, and it was best for him to realize the
worst. I gripped his hand tighter as I said:
"Nothing so pleasant, Harry. Because we're going to starve to
death."
"Starve to death?" he exclaimed. Then he added simply, with
an oddly pathetic tone: "I hadn't thought of that."
After that we lay silent for many minutes in that awful
darkness. Thoughts and memories came and went in my brain with
incredible swiftness; pictures long forgotten presented themselves;
an endless, jumbled panorama. They say that a drowning man reviews
his past life in the space of a few seconds; it took me a little
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