| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: Arbroath Bay, and land the two men he had on board, and to
deliver the following letter at the office of the workyard:-
'ON BOARD OF THE TENDER OFF THE BELL ROCK,
22ND JUNE 1810, EIGHT O'CLOCK P.M.
`DEAR SIR, - A discontented and mutinous spirit having
manifested itself of late among the landing-master's crew,
they struck work to-day and demanded an additional allowance
of beer, and I have found it necessary to dismiss D-d and M-e,
who are now sent on shore with the SMEATON. You will
therefore be so good as to pay them their wages, including
this day only. Nothing can be more unreasonable than the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: My coming seen far off? I miss thee here,
Not pleased, thus entertained with solitude,
Where obvious duty ere while appeared unsought:
Or come I less conspicuous, or what change
Absents thee, or what chance detains?--Come forth!
He came; and with him Eve, more loth, though first
To offend; discountenanced both, and discomposed;
Love was not in their looks, either to God,
Or to each other; but apparent guilt,
And shame, and perturbation, and despair,
Anger, and obstinacy, and hate, and guile.
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: and this is not attractive. It is built much as we are, but its
method of travelling shows that it is not of our breed. The short
front legs and long hind ones indicate that it is of the kangaroo
family, but it is a marked variation of the species, since the
true kangaroo hops, whereas this one never does. Still, it is a
curious and interesting variety, and has not been catalogued before.
As I discovered it, I have felt justified in securing the credit
of the discovery by attaching my name to it, and hence have called
it Kangaroorum Adamiensis. ... It must have been a young one
when it came, for it has grown exceedingly since. It must be five
times as big, now, as it was then, and when discontented is able
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