| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: I hate them kind of interruptions. I never said
nothing, and he went on:
"Well, we're shut off the other way, too. If we go
back the way we've come, there's the New York
custom-house, and that is worse than all of them others
put together, on account of the kind of cargo we've
got."
"Why?"
"Well, they can't raise Sahara sand in America, of
course, and when they can't raise a thing there, the
duty is fourteen hundred thousand per cent. on it if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: systems in five closely packed volumes, printed by Germans, who little
suspect that the gist of the matter has been known in Paris since
1750, and crystallized in a few trenchant words--the diamonds of our
national thought. Blondet is driving a hearse to his own suicide;
Blondet, forsooth! who manufactures newspaper accounts of the last
words of all the great men that die without saying anything!"
"Come, get on," put in Finot.
"It was my intention to explain to you in what the happiness of a man
consists when he is not a shareholder (out of compliment to Couture).
Well, now, do you not see at what a price Godefroid secured the
greatest happiness of a young man's dreams? He was trying to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: the whole world perish, he must save Frank. See! the negroes were
up with her now--past her--away for life! and once more he dragged
his brother down the hill, and through the wicket, only just in
time; for the whole gang of negroes were within ten yards of them
in full pursuit.
"Frank," said he, sharply, "if you ever hope to see your mother
again, rouse yourself, man, and fight!" And, without waiting for
an answer, he turned, and charged up-hill upon his pursuers, who
saw the long bright blade, and fled instantly.
Again he hurried Frank down the hill; the path wound in zigzags,
and he feared that the negroes would come straight over the cliff,
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