| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: to have food, and he knows how to raise it. To enjoy their food
they must have a house to live in, and he knows how to build it.
After a house and food comes music. This lad can play a tune for
the cabaret.
One of Mooseheart's earliest graduates made a high record in
his academic studies and mastered the trade of cook, pastry cook,
nurseryman, cement modeler, cornetist, saxophone player and
landscape gardener. He was brilliant in all these lines and ready
to make a living at any one of them. And if all these trades
should fail, he was yet a scientific farmer and could go to the
land anywhere and make it produce bigger crops than the untrained
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: (How pitifully alone, except for Love!)
Where man's thought even falters that would
follow,
Into the shadowy abyss
(Through vast and murmurous caverns dark with
crowding dread
And terrible with hovering wings),
To battle there with Death?--to battle
There with Death, and wrest from him,
O Conqueror and Mother,
Life!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: unanswerable slings at the state and my social paradoxes, and withal made it
concrete enough to dissatisfy the average citizen.
"From the tramp standpoint, the constabulary of the township was particularly
rotten, and I proceeded to open the eyes of the good people. It is a
proposition, mathematically demonstrable, that it costs the community more to
arrest, convict, and confine its tramps in jail, than to send them as guests,
for like periods of time, to the best hotel. And this I developed, giving the
facts and figures, the constable fees and the mileage, and the court and jail
expenses. Oh, it was convincing, and it was true; and I did it in a lightly
humorous fashion which fetched the laugh and left the sting. The main
objection to the system, I contended, was the defraudment and robbery of the
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