| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: the advice he had then given.
"I trust your friends were all well?" he said.
"I guess they was healthy enough," said Lin.
"I suppose you found Boston much changed? It's a beautiful city."
"Good enough town for them that likes it, I expect," Lin replied.
The bishop was forming a notion of what the matter must be, but he had no
notion whatever of what now revealed itself.
"Mr. Bishop," the cow-puncher said, "how was that about that fellow you
told about that's in the Bible somewheres?--he come home to his folks,
and they--well there was his father saw him comin'"--He stopped,
embarrassed.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: they had no black veils, soft and long like the black veil that
Sister Angela wore. And they had no little white crosses like the
small white cross that Sister Angela wore on the breast of her soft
black dress.
One of the pretty-grown up folks looked at one of the little tiny
girls and said: ``And what is her name?''
Sister Angela said: ``Bessie Bell was written on her little white
night-gown, done in linen thread.''
And Sister Angela said: ``Yes, we have always kept the little white
night-gown.''
And one of the pretty grown-up people said: ``Yes, that was right.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: with the eggs of some of the smaller fresh-water animals.
Other and unknown agencies probably have also played a part. I have stated
that fresh-water fish eat some kinds of seeds, though they reject many
other kinds after having swallowed them; even small fish swallow seeds of
moderate size, as of the yellow water-lily and Potamogeton. Herons and
other birds, century after century, have gone on daily devouring fish; they
then take flight and go to other waters, or are blown across the sea; and
we have seen that seeds retain their power of germination, when rejected in
pellets or in excrement, many hours afterwards. When I saw the great size
of the seeds of that fine water-lily, the Nelumbium, and remembered Alph.
de Candolle's remarks on this plant, I thought that its distribution must
On the Origin of Species |
