| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: slung at the saddle-bow. From their shoulders hung gay-
colored cloaks.
The horses, which were feeding at liberty at the edge of
the wood, were, like their masters, of the Usbeck race.
These animals are rather smaller than the Turcomanian
horses, but are possessed of remarkable strength, and know
no other pace than the gallop.
This detachment was commanded by a "pendja-baschi";
that is to say, a commander of fifty men, having under him
a "deh-baschi," or simple commander of ten men. These
two officers wore helmets and half coats-of-mail; little trum-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: and, on top of it all, he knew how to run a farm. Such a boy can
serve his country in peace or war. Before men can eat they have
to have food, and he knows how to raise it. To enjoy their food
they must have a house to live in, and he knows how to build it.
After a house and food comes music. This lad can play a tune for
the cabaret.
One of Mooseheart's earliest graduates made a high record in
his academic studies and mastered the trade of cook, pastry cook,
nurseryman, cement modeler, cornetist, saxophone player and
landscape gardener. He was brilliant in all these lines and ready
to make a living at any one of them. And if all these trades
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: grain. Though he had bought and greatly enlarged his new
elevator at this port, he had never seen it. The work had been
carried on through agents, S. Behrman having far too many and
more pressing occupations to demand his presence and attention.
Now, however, he was to see the concrete evidence of his success
for the first time.
He picked his way across the railroad tracks to the line of
warehouses that bordered the docks, numbered with enormous Roman
numerals and full of grain in bags.
The sight of these bags of grain put him in mind of the fact that
among all the other shippers he was practically alone in his way
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