| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: the train was sliding forward upon the motionless flanges.
"Hello, hello," he exclaimed, "what's all up now?"
"Emergency brakes," declared the conductor, catching up his cash
box and thrusting his papers and tickets into it. "Nothing much;
probably a cow on the track."
He disappeared, carrying his lantern with him.
But the other passengers, all but the stout gentleman, were
awake; heads were thrust from out the curtains, and Annixter,
hurrying back to Hilma, was assailed by all manner of questions.
"What was that?"
"Anything wrong?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: work. (It was completed, opened and partially destroyed by
a gigantic fire.) Another station at Kashira in the Tula
Government (on the Oka), using the small coal produced
in the Moscow coalfields, will be at work before the autumn.
This year similar stations are being built at
Ivano-Voznesensk and at Nijni-Novgorod. Also, with a
view to making the most economic use of what we already
possess, we have finished both in Petrograd and in Moscow
a general unification of all the private power-stations, which
now supply their current to a single main cable. Similar
unification is nearly finished at Tula and at Kostroma. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: waters to attack the huge, unwieldy, treasure-laden galleons that
sailed up and down the Caribbean Sea and through the Bahama
Channel.
Of all ghastly and terrible things old-time religious war was the
most ghastly and terrible. One can hardly credit nowadays the
cold, callous cruelty of those times. Generally death was the
least penalty that capture entailed. When the Spaniards made
prisoners of the English, the Inquisition took them in hand, and
what that meant all the world knows. When the English captured a
Spanish vessel the prisoners were tortured, either for the sake
of revenge or to compel them to disclose where treasure lay
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
