| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: goes from Padwick to Great Haverham, carrying in one hand a
basket of provisions, and under the other arm a leather case
containing (it is to be conjectured) the score of Orange Pekoe.
It was October weather; the stone-grey sky was full of larks, the
leaden mirror of the Thames brightened with autumnal foliage, and
the fallen leaves of the chestnuts chirped under the composer's
footing. There is no time of the year in England more courageous;
and Jimson, though he was not without his troubles, whistled as
he went.
A little above Padwick the river lies very solitary. On the
opposite shore the trees of a private park enclose the view, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.
Now, with my little gun, I crawl
All in the dark along the wall,
And follow round the forest track
Away behind the sofa back.
There, in the night, where none can spy,
All in my hunter's camp I lie,
And play at books that I have read
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing
with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions,
to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers,
incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large
for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States;
for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither,
United States Declaration of Independence |
