| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: and clogged, unintelligent speech. She was dumb, bewildered,
stupid, animated but by a single impulse. She clung to life, and
to the life of her little daughter Hilda, with the blind tenacity
of purpose of a drowning cat.
Thus, when ordered to move on by the officer, she had silently
obeyed, not even attempting to explain her situation. She walked
away to the next street-crossing. Then, in a few moments
returned, taking up her place on the corner near the boarding-
house, spying upon the approaching cable cars, peeping anxiously
down the length of the sidewalks.
Once more, the officer ordered her away, and once more,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: ing his children nothing. But when all was said,
he had come up from the sea himself, had built
up a proud little business with no capital but his
own skill and foresight, and had proved himself
a man. In his daughter, John Bergson recog-
nized the strength of will, and the simple direct
way of thinking things out, that had charac-
terized his father in his better days. He would
much rather, of course, have seen this likeness
in one of his sons, but it was not a question of
choice. As he lay there day after day he had to
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a Ptarth battle fleet was winging its majestic way slowly
toward the twin cities of Helium, while from far distant
Kaol raced another mighty armada to join forces with its ally.
He did not know that in the face of the circumstantial
evidence against him even his own people had commenced
to entertain suspicions that he might have stolen the
Ptarthian princess.
He did not know of the lengths to which the Dusarians
had gone to disrupt the friendship and alliance which
existed between the three great powers of the eastern
hemisphere--Helium, Ptarth and Kaol.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
