| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: obstruction.
Cleggett judged that he must be at about the middle of the
tunnel. He felt the more solid earth beneath his hands again,
and knew that he had passed the rock. The passage now descended
deeper into the ground, slanting steeply downward. This incline
was twenty feet in length; then the floor became horizontal again
on the lower level. At the same time the passage widened.
Cleggett stretched one arm out, then the other; he could not
touch the wall on either hand. He stood erect and held his hand
up; the roof was six inches above his head. He was in a room of
some sort. Wishing, if possible, to learn the extent of this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: display of manufacturers' samples. The selector would make
his choice among these, six months in advance of the season.
The selector would go to the eastern markets too, of course.
Not to buy. Merely to select. Then, with the line chosen
as far as style, quality, and value is concerned, the buyer
would be free to deal directly with the manufacturer as to
quantity, time, and all that. You know as well as I
that that's enough of a job for any one person, with the
labor situation what it is. He wouldn't need to bother
about styles or colors, or any of that. It would all have
been done for him. The selector would have the real
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: made such a calculation in his own case.
And now, when the question of voting had come, this repulsive fact
told more strongly against Mr. Farebrother than it had done before.
One would know much better what to do if men's characters were
more consistent, and especially if one's friends were invariably fit
for any function they desired to undertake! Lydgate was convinced
that if there had been no valid objection to Mr. Farebrother, he would
have voted for him, whatever Bulstrode might have felt on the subject:
he did not intend to be a vassal of Bulstrode's. On the other hand,
there was Tyke, a man entirely given to his clerical office, who was
simply curate at a chapel of ease in St. Peter's parish, and had
Middlemarch |
