| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: a doubt it was the same shifty-eyed villain. Nor did it shake
Bucky's confidence that Mackenzie had seen him and failed to
recognize the man as his old cook. The fellow was thoroughly
disguised, but the camera had happened to catch that curious
furtive glance of his. But for that O'Connor would never have
known the two to be the same.
Bucky was at the telephone half an hour. In the middle of the
next afternoon his reward came in the form of a Western Union
billet. It read:
"Eastern man says you don't want what is salable here."
The lieutenant cut out every other word and garnered the wheat of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Which one by one she in a river threw,
Upon whose weeping margent she was set;
Like usury applying wet to wet,
Or monarchs' hands, that lets not bounty fall
Where want cries 'some,' but where excess begs all.
Of folded schedules had she many a one,
Which she perus'd, sigh'd, tore, and gave the flood;
Crack'd many a ring of posied gold and bone,
Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;
Found yet mo letters sadly penn'd in blood,
With sleided silk feat and affectedly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: "Delighted, my boy, delighted. We have got there."
"To our journey's end?"
"No; but we have got to the end of that endless sea. Now we shall go
by land, and really begin to go down! down! down!"
"But, my dear uncle, do let me ask you one question."
"Of course, Axel."
"How about returning?"
"Returning? Why, you are talking about the return before the arrival."
"No, I only want to know how that is to be managed."
"In the simplest way possible. When we have reached the centre of the
globe, either we shall find some new way to get back, or we shall
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
