| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: Friday
The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. I
had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty--
GARDEN-OF-EDEN. Privately, I continue to call it that, but not
any longer publicly. The new creature says it is all woods and
rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden.
Says it looks like a park, and does not look like anything but a
park. Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new-named--
NIAGARA FALLS PARK. This is sufficiently high-handed, it seems to
me. And already there is a sign up:
KEEP OFF
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: lyzed his faculties.
"I haven't come up here to blame you,
Frank. I think they were more to blame than
you." Alexandra, too, felt benumbed.
Frank looked up suddenly and stared out of
the office window. "I guess dat place all go to
hell what I work so hard on," he said with a
slow, bitter smile. "I not care a damn." He
stopped and rubbed the palm of his hand over
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: school-board! Sam! Won't you stand by Fern, and threaten
to resign from the board if they try to discharge her?"
Rather testy, tired of so many subtleties, he complained,
"Well, I'll do what I can, but I'll have to wait till the board
meets."
And "I'll do what I can," together with the secret admission
"Of course you and I know what Ma Bogart is," was all Carol
could get from Superintendent George Edwin Mott, Ezra Stowbody,
the Reverend Mr. Zitterel or any other member of the
school-board.
Afterward she wondered whether Mr. Zitterel could have
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