| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: though I had no plan to bring the matter about. I pondered a
moment, looking at Otomie.
'The thought is good, Teule,' she said, answering my unspoken
question; 'for you and for our son there is no better, but for
myself I will answer in the proverb of my people, "The earth that
bears us lies lightest on our bones."'
Then she turned, making ready to quit the storehouse of the temple
where we had been lodged during the siege, and no more was said
about the matter.
Before the sun set a weary throng of men, with some few women and
children, were marching across the courtyard that surrounded the
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "I don't want it," I said. "Look inside. Maybe the other man took
the money and left the wallet."
The conductor opened it, and again there was a curious surging
forward of the crowd. To my intense disappointment the money was
still there.
I stood blankly miserable while it was counted out - five
one-hundred-dollar bills, six twenties, and some fives and ones that
brought the total to six hundred and fifty dollars.
The little man with the note-book insisted on taking the numbers of
the notes, to the conductor's annoyance. It was immaterial to me:
small things had lost their power to irritate. I was seeing myself
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: "I agree," he said. "A strike at a time like this doesn't seem
to be the right thing to do."
"If you don't think it a wise move," I said, "why don't you get
up and say so. For this meeting is going to vote strike in the
next two minutes, sure as fate."
"I can't make a speech," he said. "You do it."
The men were paid monthly checks and had never heard any
complaint from their landlords and grocerymen who were willing to
wait for their pay. The complaint had been made by a few
outsiders who wanted to see money circulate faster in town and
thus boom things up a bit. They had aroused the strike spirit of
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