| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: -- what the quality eat; none of your low-down
corn-pone.
I got a good place amongst the leaves, and set there
on a log, munching the bread and watching the ferry-
boat, and very well satisfied. And then something
struck me. I says, now I reckon the widow or the
parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find
me, and here it has gone and done it. So there ain't
no doubt but there is something in that thing -- that is,
there's something in it when a body like the widow or
the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: and the supply will keep coming from all quarters all sizes for
you to say big A little a to them. There is no news here. Only
calves and cows and the hens are laying now which does always
seem news to a hen every time she does it. Did I ever tell you
about a hen Emily we had here? She was venturesome to an extent I
have not seen in other hens only she had poor judgement and would
make no family ties. She would keep trying to get interest in the
ties of others taking charge of little chicks and bantams and
turkeys and puppies one time, and she thought most anything was
an egg. I will tell you about her sometime. She died without
family ties one day while I was building a house for her to teach
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: round the small room, which, by a euphemism, is called my library,
I took the precaution of making two self-acting ventilators which
communicated directly with the outer air just under the ceiling.
For economy of space as well as of temper (for lamps of all kinds
are sore trials), I had a gasalier of three lights over the table.
The effect was to cause great heat in the upper regions,
and in the course of a year or two the leather valance which hung
from the window, as well as the fringe which dropped half-an-inch
from each shelf to keep out the dust, was just like tinder,
and in some parts actually fell to the ground by its own weight;
while the backs of the books upon the top shelves were perished,
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