| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: dwelling. The crevice is closed, in course of time, not
intentionally, but solely by the action of the usual spinning.
We arrive at the same conclusion on the subject of the House
Spider. Walking about her platform every night, she lays fresh
courses without drawing a distinction between the solid and the
hollow. She has not deliberately put a patch in the torn texture;
she has simply gone on with her ordinary business. If it happen
that the hole is eventually closed, this fortunate result is the
outcome not of a special purpose, but of an unvarying method of
work.
Besides, it is evident that, if the Spider really wished to mend
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: pie o' dese yer."
"Really, Aunt Chloe, I don't much care;--serve them any
way you like."
Chloe stood handling them over abstractedly; it was quite
evident that the chickens were not what she was thinking of.
At last, with the short laugh with which her tribe often introduce
a doubtful proposal, she said,
"Laws me, Missis! what should Mas'r and Missis be a troublin
theirselves 'bout de money, and not a usin what's right in der
hands?" and Chloe laughed again.
"I don't understand you, Chloe," said Mrs. Shelby, nothing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: Jews!
The play went on, but she saw nothing but George and his
wife.
There was the result of all her drudgery! The hot
summers of work in the filthy poultry yards; the grinding
out of poor jokes; the coarse, cheap underclothes (she
used to cry when she put them on, she hated them so).
Years and years of it all; and for that cold, selfish
fop!
His mother saw him leave the box, and knew that he was
coming.
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