| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: blankets and quilts. The inside of the store was almost like
Bullard's store in Jonesboro, except that there were no loungers
about the roaring red-hot stove, whittling and spitting streams of
tobacco juice at the sand boxes. It was bigger than Bullard's
store and much darker. The wooden awnings cut off most of the
winter daylight and the interior was dim and dingy, only a trickle
of light coming in through the small fly-specked windows high up on
the side walls. The floor was covered with muddy sawdust and
everywhere was dust and dirt. There was a semblance of order in
the front of the store, where tall shelves rose into the gloom
stacked with bright bolts of cloth, china, cooking utensils and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: years, the fruit of their wisdom was cynicism. Their knowledge
withered for lack of roots.
The tendency of the city desk and of copy readers is to reduce all
reporters to a dead level, but in spite of this Jeff managed to
get himself into his work. He brought to many stories a freshness,
a point of view, an optimism that began to be noticed. From the
police run Jeff drifted to other departments. He covered hotels,
the court house, the state house and general assignments.
At the end of a couple of years he was promoted to a desk
position. This did not suit him, and he went back to the more
active work of the street. In time he became known as a star man.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: At last HE rose, and twitched his mantle blue;
Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new."
Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent
with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so
rich and varied in its productions, and at the same time so
habitable by the European, as this is? Michaux, who knew but part
of them, says that "the species of large trees are much more
numerous in North America than in Europe; in the United States
there are more than one hundred and forty species that exceed
thirty feet in height; in France there are but thirty that attain
this size." Later botanists more than confirm his observations.
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