| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "Thank you," burlesqued the bandit gravely, with such an ironic
touch of convention that Alice smiled.
After dinner Leroy produced cigars, and with the permission of
Miss Mackenzie the two men smoked while the conversation ran on a
topic as impersonal as literature. A criticism of novels and
plays written to illustrate the frontier was the line into which
the discussion fell, and the girl from the city, listening with a
vivid interest, was pleased to find that these two real men
talked with point and a sense of dexterous turns. She felt a sort
of proud proprietorship in their power, and wished that some of
the tailors' models she had met in society, who held so good a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: they were all attached to the artless Jewess, for they were interested
in the unknown misfortunes of a girl of eighteen who could neither
read nor write, to whom all knowledge and instruction were new, and
who was to earn for the Archbishop the triumph of having converted a
Jewess to Catholicism and giving the convent a festival in her
baptism. They forgave her beauty, finding themselves her superiors in
education.
Esther very soon caught the manners, the accent, the carriage and
attitudes of these highly-bred girls; in short, her first nature
reasserted itself. The change was so complete that on his first visit
Herrera was astonished as it would seem--and the Mother Superior
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: could it?
Five Months Later
It is not a kangaroo. No, for it supports itself by holding to
her finger, and thus goes a few steps on its hind legs, and then
falls down. It is probably some kind of a bear; and yet it has
no tail--as yet--and no fur, except on its head. It still keeps
on growing--that is a curious circumstance, for bears get their
growth earlier than this. Bears are dangerous--since our
catastrophe--and I shall not be satisfied to have this one prowling
about the place much longer without a muzzle on. I have offered
to get her a kangaroo if she would let this one go, but it did no
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