| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: The resulting document has several misspellings removed from those
parchment "facsimiles" I used back in 1971, and which I should not
be able to easily find at this time, including "Brittain."
**The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Declaration of Independence**
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The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and
of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
United States Declaration of Independence |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: to prove that two and two make four.
The depression due to my visit to the hospital left me at the
prospect of seeing Halsey again that night. It was about five
o'clock when Liddy left me for a nap before dinner, having put me
into a gray silk dressing-gown and a pair of slippers. I
listened to her retreating footsteps, and as soon as she was
safely below stairs, I went up to the trunk-room. The place had
not been disturbed, and I proceeded at once to try to discover
the entrance to the hidden room. The openings on either side, as
I have said, showed nothing but perhaps three feet of brick wall.
There was no sign of an entrance--no levers, no hinges, to give a
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: said Mrs. Bread. "There is no rule so strict as that of the Carmelites.
The bad women in the reformatories are fine ladies to them.
They wear old brown cloaks--so the femme de chambre told me--
that you wouldn't use for a horse blanket. And the poor countess was
so fond of soft-feeling dresses; she would never have anything stiff!
They sleep on the ground," Mrs. Bread went on; "they are no better,
no better,"--and she hesitated for a comparison,--"they are no better
than tinkers' wives. They give up everything, down to the very
name their poor old nurses called them by. They give up father
and mother, brother and sister,--to say nothing of other persons,"
Mrs. Bread delicately added. "They wear a shroud under their brown
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