| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: could be more natural or more easy--as more than one legend
intimates--than that the king should extort the new secret from his
subject, and then put him to death to prevent any further publicity.
Two great inventive geniuses we may see dimly through the abysses of
the past, both of whom must have become in their time great chiefs,
founders of mighty aristocracies--it may be, worshipped after their
death as gods.
The first, who seems to have existed after the age in which the
black race colonised Australia, must have been surely a man worthy
to hold rank with our Brindleys, Watts, and Stephensons. For he
invented (and mind, one man must have invented the thing first, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: me, in the course of time? I think not. If she had lived in
Stratford in Shakespeare's time, would she have forgotten him?
Yes. For he was never famous during his lifetime, he was utterly
obscure in Stratford, and there wouldn't be any occasion to
remember him after he had been dead a week.
"Injun Joe," "Jimmy Finn," and "General Gaines" were
prominent and very intemperate ne'er-do-weels in Hannibal two
generations ago. Plenty of grayheads there remember them to this
day, and can tell you about them. Isn't it curious that two
"town drunkards" and one half-breed loafer should leave behind
them, in a remote Missourian village, a fame a hundred times
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: Also he could not understand
how the cat could have
managed to shut herself up
INSIDE the green-house, locking
the door upon the OUTSIDE.
WHEN Peter got home,
his mother forgave him,
because she was so glad to see
that he had found his shoes
and coat. Cotton-tail and
Peter folded up the pocket-
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