| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: "High!" said Sam, opening his eyes. "How you know dat?"
"Heard her say so, my own self, dis blessed mornin', when
I bring in Mas'r's shaving-water. She sent me to see why Lizy
didn't come to dress her; and when I telled her she was off,
she jest ris up, and ses she, `The Lord be praised;' and Mas'r,
he seemed rael mad, and ses he, `Wife, you talk like a fool.'
But Lor! she'll bring him to! I knows well enough how that'll
be,--it's allers best to stand Missis' side the fence, now
I tell yer."
Black Sam, upon this, scratched his woolly pate, which, if
it did not contain very profound wisdom, still contained a great
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: But the whole scene of this voyage made so strong an impression
on my mind, and is so deeply fixed in my memory, that, in
committing it to paper I did not omit one material circumstance:
however, upon a strict review, I blotted out several passages.
Of less moment which were in my first copy, for fear of being
censured as tedious and trifling, whereof travellers are often,
perhaps not without justice, accused.
CHAPTER II.
[A description of the farmer's daughter. The author carried to a
market-town, and then to the metropolis. The particulars of his
journey.]
Gulliver's Travels |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: "One of the first things we'll do will be to boom through a channel
where Mr. Man's rollways will be," said Orde.
A faint gleam of approval lit Newmark's eyes.
"I guess you'll be equal to the occasion," said he drily.
Before the afternoon train, there remained four hours. The partners
at once hunted out the little one-story frame building near the
river in which Johnson conducted his business.
Johnson received them with an evident reserve of suspicion.
"I see no use in it," said he, passing his hand over his hair
"slicked" down in the lumber-jack fashion. "I can run me own widout
help from any man."
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