| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: This morning the wind was at east, blowing a fresh gale,
the weather being hazy, with a considerable breach of sea
setting in upon the rock. The morning bell was therefore
rung, in some doubt as to the practicability of making a
landing. After allowing the rock to get fully up, or to be
sufficiently left by the tide, that the boats might have some
shelter from the range of the sea, they proceeded at 8 a.m.,
and upon the whole made a pretty good landing; and after two
hours and three-quarters' work returned to the ship in safety.
In the afternoon the wind considerably increased, and, as
a pretty heavy sea was still running, the tender rode very
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: even, is of a sight more consequence than the oldest patriarch.
Yes, sir, Adam himself has to walk behind Shakespeare."
"Was Shakespeare a prophet?"
"Of course he was; and so was Homer, and heaps more. But
Shakespeare and the rest have to walk behind a common tailor from
Tennessee, by the name of Billings; and behind a horse-doctor named
Sakka, from Afghanistan. Jeremiah, and Billings and Buddha walk
together, side by side, right behind a crowd from planets not in
our astronomy; next come a dozen or two from Jupiter and other
worlds; next come Daniel, and Sakka and Confucius; next a lot from
systems outside of ours; next come Ezekiel, and Mahomet, Zoroaster,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: And what if rain shall fall to-day and you with
grief are sad;
Be grateful that you can recall the joys that
you have had.
A REAL MAN
Men are of two kinds, and he
Was of the kind I'd like to be.
Some preach their virtues, and a few
Express their lives by what they do.
That sort was he. No flowery phrase
Or glibly spoken words of praise
A Heap O' Livin' |
