| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: plasters. She calculated his capacity as she would a
jug's, and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls.
Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this
time. This phase filled the old lady's heart with
consternation. This indifference must be broken up
at any cost. Now she heard of Pain-killer for the
first time. She ordered a lot at once. She tasted it
and was filled with gratitude. It was simply fire in a
liquid form. She dropped the water treatment and
everything else, and pinned her faith to Pain-killer.
She gave Tom a teaspoonful and watched with the
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: contact of the cork? I replace the cork balls by pellets of cotton
or paper, kept in their round shape with a few bands of thread.
Both are very readily accepted instead of the real bag that has
been removed.
Can the illusion be due to the colouring, which is light in the
cork and not unlike the tint of the silk globe when soiled with a
little earth, while it is white in the paper and the cotton, when
it is identical with that of the original pill? I give the Lycosa,
in exchange for her work, a pellet of silk thread, chosen of a fine
red, the brightest of all colours. The uncommon pill is as readily
accepted and as jealously guarded as the others.
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: me takes the journalist reporter around to another door and we let
ourselves into one of the office rooms.
"Now, my literary friend," says Buck, "take a chair, and keep still,
and I'll give you an interview. You see before you two grafters from
Graftersville, Grafter County, Arkansas. Me and Pick have sold brass
jewelry, hair tonic, song books, marked cards, patent medicines,
Connecticut Smyrna rugs, furniture polish, and albums in every town
from Old Point Comfort to the Golden Gate. We've grafted a dollar
whenever we saw one that had a surplus look to it. But we never went
after the simoleon in the toe of the sock under the loose brick in the
corner of the kitchen hearth. There's an old saying you may have heard
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