| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: eating an orange."
"He can't know how near we are coming," said aunty; "hadn't
you better run and speak to him?"
"Papa never is in a hurry about anything," said Eva, "and
we haven't come to the landing. Do step on the guards, aunty.
Look! there's our house, up that street!"
The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired
monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers
at the levee. Eva joyously pointed out the various spires, domes,
and way-marks, by which she recognized her native city.
"Yes, yes, dear; very fine," said Miss Ophelia. "But mercy
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that of the men and much heavier. It hung about her shoul-
ders and was confined by a colored bit of some lacy fabric.
Her single garment appeared to be nothing more than a filmy
scarf which was wound tightly around her body from below
her naked breasts, being caught up some way at the bottom
near her ankles. Bits of shiny metal resembling gold, orna-
mented both the headdress and the skirt. Otherwise the woman
was entirely without jewelry. Her bare arms were slender
and shapely and her hands and feet well proportioned and
symmetrical.
She came close to the party as they passed her, jabbering
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: And now, on the strength of all that we had done, Socrates (he added),
I addressed my wife, explaining that all these things would fail of
use unless she took in charge herself to see that the order of each
several part was kept. Thereupon I taught her that in every well-
constituted city the citizens are not content merely to pass good
laws, but they further choose them guardians of the laws,[15] whose
function as inspectors is to praise the man whose acts are law-
abiding, or to mulct some other who offends against the law.
Accordingly, I bade her believe that she, the mistress, was herself to
play the part of guardian of the laws to her whole household,
examining whenever it seemed good to her, and passing in review the
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