| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: I won't go fishing. It's too warm. Besides, the fish won't bite
so early in the afternoon.
NED. Oh, come on. It's not warm at all. And anyway, we won't
really fish. I want to tell you something.
LORETTA. [Still petulantly.] You are always wanting to tell me
something.
NED. Yes, but only in fun. This is different. This is serious.
Our . . . my happiness depends upon it.
LORETTA. [Speaking eagerly, no longer petulant, looking, serious
and delighted, divining a proposal.] Then don't wait. Tell me
right here.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: and he'll drown."
"Water is a bad thing for his clockworks,
anyway," agreed Shaggy, as with one accord they
all started for the fountain. But before they
could reach it, invisible hands raised Tik-Tok
from the marble basin and set him upon his feet
beside it, water dripping from every joint of his
copper body.
"Ma-ny tha-tha-tha-thanks!" he said; and
then his copper jaws clicked together and he
could say no more. He next made an attempt to
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Belknap, upon slavery in New England, are to be found in the
"Historical Collection of Massachusetts," vol. iv. p. 193. It
appears that negroes were introduced there in 1630, but that the
legislation and manners of the people were opposed to slavery
from the first; see also, in the same work, the manner in which
public opinion, and afterwards the laws, finally put an end to
slavery.]
A century had scarcely elapsed since the foundation of the
colonies, when the attention of the planters was struck by the
extraordinary fact, that the provinces which were comparatively
destitute of slaves, increased in population, in wealth, and in
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