| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: it. He says if things go well he will let Doctor
Kirby be manager of that company, and let him
have some stock in it too, and he will be president
and treasurer of it himself.
Doctor Kirby, he didn't like that, and said so.
Said HE was going to organize that stock company,
and control it himself. But Doctor Jackson said
he never put money into nothing he couldn't run.
So it was settled we would give the stuff a try-out
and report to him. Before we went away from
there it looked to me like Doctor Kirby and me was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: to the agent.
"That's me," he said, coming out to the telegraph instrument. "So you're
one of us?"
"I didn't know forty-seven meant Separ," said I. "How in the world do you
know that?"
"I didn't. I heard forty-seven, forty-seven, forty-seven, start and go
right along, so I guessed they wanted him, and he couldn't hear them from
his room."
"Can yu' do astronomy and Spanish too?" inquired the proud and smiling
McLean.
"Why, it's nothing! I've been day operator back home. Why is a deputy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: In your hands, my fellow citizens. . .more than mine. . .will rest the
final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded,
each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony
to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered
the call to service surround the globe. Now the trumpet summons us again. . .
not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need. . .not as a call to battle. . .
though embattled we are. . .but a call to bear the burden of a long
twilight struggle. . .year in and year out, rejoicing in hope,
patient in tribulation. . .a struggle against the common enemies of man:
tyranny. . .poverty. . .disease. . .and war itself. Can we forge against
these enemies a grand and global alliance. . .North and South. . .
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