| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: "The river has fallen since last night," said Baloo. "O Hathi,
hast thou ever seen the like of this drought?"
"It will pass, it will pass," said Hathi, squirting water along
his back and sides.
"We have one here that cannot endure long," said Baloo; and he
looked toward the boy he loved.
"I?" said Mowgli indignantly, sitting up in the water. "I have
no long fur to cover my bones, but--but if THY hide were taken
off, Baloo----"
Hathi shook all over at the idea, and Baloo said severely:
"Man-cub, that is not seemly to tell a Teacher of the Law.
The Second Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry: Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the
subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we
find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir,
deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert
the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated;
we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have
implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and
Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced
additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: ended
the last stroke of seven as he lifted his head from the table.
Thin, pale strips of the city morning were falling into the room
through
the narrow partings of the heavy curtains.
What was it that had happened to him? Had he been ill? Had he
died and
come to life again? Or had he only slept, and had his soul gone
visiting
in dreams? He sat for some time, motionless, not lost, but
finding himself
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