| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Virginia Maxon thought that he must have some good
reason of his own for wishing to conceal his identity.
At first she wondered if he could be a fugitive from
justice--the perpetrator of some horrid crime,
who dared not divulge his true name even in the remote
fastness of a Bornean wilderness; but a glance at
his frank and noble countenance drove every vestige
of the traitorous thought from her mind. Her woman's
intuition was sufficient guarantee of the nobility
of his character.
"Then let me thank you, Mr. Bulan," she said, "for the
The Monster Men |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: find it, she accepted the one I thrust into her wet fingers.
Then, little by little, she told me from the handkerchief, a sordid
story of a motor trip in the mountains without Mrs. Curtis, of a
lost road and a broken car, and a rainy night when they - she and
Sullivan, tramped eternally and did not get home. And of Mrs.
Curtis, when they got home at dawn, suddenly grown conventional and
deeply shocked. Of her own proud, half-disdainful consent to make
possible the hackneyed compromising situation by marrying the rascal,
and then - of his disappearance from the train. It was so terrible
to her, such a Heaven-sent relief to me, in spite of my rage against
Sullivan, that I laughed aloud. At which she looked at me over the
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession
in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of Treason,
but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood,
or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
ARTICLE FOUR
Section 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the
public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.
And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts,
Records, and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
The United States Constitution |
