| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: and was a grateful man in consequence; but after that NOBODY knew
him or cared anything about him. He was not able to keep up
his dues in the various moral organizations to which he belonged,
and had to endure the sharp pain of seeing himself brought under
the disgrace of suspension.
But the faster Edward died out of public knowledge and interest,
the faster George rose in them. He was found lying, ragged and drunk,
in the gutter one morning. A member of the Ladies' Temperance Refuge
fished him out, took him in hand, got up a subscription for him,
kept him sober a whole week, then got a situation for him.
An account of it was published.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: attentively.
"I would, indeed," was the earnest reply.
"Then I will see what I can do for you," promised the
Rainbow's Daughter, and flying to the ground she took a
small twig in her bill and with it made several mystic
figures on each side of Tommy Kwikstep.
"Are you a witch, or fairy, or something of the
sort?" he asked as he watched her wonderingly.
The Canary made no answer, for she was busy, but the
Scarecrow Bear replied: "Yes; she's something of the
sort, and a bird of a magician."
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: pool of the river; the canyon re-echoed the report; and in a
moment the camp was afoot. With cries that were scarce
human, stumbling, falling and throwing each other down, these
starving people rushed upon the quarry; and before my father,
climbing down by the ledge, had time to reach the level of
the stream, many were already satisfying their hunger on the
raw flesh, and a fire was being built by the more dainty.
His arrival was for some time unremarked. He stood in the
midst of these tottering and clay-faced marionettes; he was
surrounded by their cries; but their whole soul was fixed on
the dead carcass; even those who were too weak to move, lay,
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