| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: by his fault, some of these unfortunate documents became public.
It was plain that the relations between the two flanks of the
German invasion, the diplomatic and the commercial, were strained
to bursting. But Weber was a man ill to conquer. Zembsch was
recalled; and from that time forth, whether through influence at
home, or by the solicitations of Weber on the spot, the German
consulate has shown itself very apt to play the game of the German
firm. That game, we may say, was twofold, - the first part even
praiseworthy, the second at least natural. On the one part, they
desired an efficient native administration, to open up the country
and punish crime; they wished, on the other, to extend their own
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: And then he was gone again into the swaying trees, following
the high-flung spoor which no other human eye could
have detected, much less translated.
At boughs' ends, where the anthropoid swings from one tree
to another, there is most to mark the trail, but least to
point the direction of the quarry; for there the pressure is
downward always, toward the small end of the branch, whether
the ape be leaving or entering a tree. Nearer the center of
the tree, where the signs of passage are fainter, the direction
is plainly marked.
Here, on this branch, a caterpillar has been crushed by the
Tarzan of the Apes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: others were watching and listening.
"Is it true?" he demanded, staring down at me. "You are NOT Mrs.
Wilson? You are not married at all? All that about being
neglected--and loathing HIM, and all that on the roof--there was
no foundation of truth?"
I could only shake my head without looking up. There was no
defense to be made. Oh, I deserved the scorn in his voice.
"They--they persuaded you, I suppose, and it was to help
somebody? It was not a practical joke?"
"No," I rallied a little spirit at that. It had been anything but
a joke.
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