| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: become strange to Robin's ears.
"Well, my good lad, why are you sitting here?" inquired he. "Can
I be of service to you in any way?"
"I am afraid not, sir," replied Robin, despondingly; "yet I shall
take it kindly, if you'll answer me a single question. I've been
searching, half the night, for one Major Molineux, now, sir, is
there really such a person in these parts, or am I dreaming?"
"Major Molineux! The name is not altogether strange to me," said
the gentleman, smiling. "Have you any objection to telling me the
nature of your business with him?"
Then Robin briefly related that his father was a clergyman,
The Snow Image |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: level of the ocean slowly crawled up the slant of the deck. We
battened down the engine-room hatch, and the sea rose to it and
over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companion-way and
skylight. We were all sick with fever, but we turned out in the
blazing tropic sun and toiled madly for several hours. We carried
our heaviest lines ashore from our mast-heads and heaved with our
heaviest purchase until everything crackled including ourselves.
We would spell off and lie down like dead men, then get up and
heave and crackle again. And in the end, our lower rail five feet
under water and the wavelets lapping the companion-way combing,
the sturdy little craft shivered and shook herself and pointed her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: WARWICK.
Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?
GLOSTER.
Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give;
I'll do thee service for so good a gift.
WARWICK.
'T was I that gave the kingdom to thy brother.
KING EDWARD.
Why, then, 't is mine, if but by Warwick's gift.
WARWICK.
Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight,
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