| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia, and the majority
of us so poor, that I was not able, with great industry, to find
more than fifty persons, mostly young tradesmen, willing to pay down
for this purpose forty shillings each, and ten shillings per annum.
On this little fund we began. The books were imported; the library
wag opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers,
on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned.
The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by
other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented
by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people,
having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study,
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: to her.
The duke's money paid for all that, as you may imagine; but from
time to time Prudence came to me, asking for a note for a
thousand francs, professedly on behalf of Marguerite. You know I
had won some money at gambling; I therefore immediately handed
over to Prudence what she asked for Marguerite, and fearing lest
she should require more than I possessed, I borrowed at Paris a
sum equal to that which I had already borrowed and paid back. I
was then once more in possession of some ten thousand francs,
without reckoning my allowance. However, Marguerite's pleasure in
seeing her friends was a little moderated when she saw the
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: from below, and no movement in the bushes to indicate that
a moment before two desperately battling human beings
had dropped among them.
The soldiers were close upon the girl's heels, but it was
she who first reached the two quiet figures that lay side by
side upon the stony ground halfway down the hillside.
When the officer stopped beside her she was sitting on
the ground holding the head of one of the combatants in
her lap.
A little stream of blood trickled from a wound in the
forehead. The officer stooped closer.
The Mad King |
