| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: "Enough," replied Bonnebault; "and if they begin to say I'm too
dilatory, I'll let you know in time."
A week after that singular conversation the whole arrondissement,
indeed the whole department, was covered with posters, advertising the
sale of Les Aigues at the office of Maitre Corbineau, the notary of
Soulanges. All the lots were knocked down to Rigou, and the price paid
amounted to two millions five hundred thousand francs. The next day
Rigou had the names changed; Monsieur Gaubertin took the woods, Rigou
and Soudry the vineyards and the farms. The chateau and the park were
sold over again in small lots among the sons of the soil, the
peasantry,--excepting the pavilion, its dependencies, and fifty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: were used, and as well, great rafts of pine piles were towed down
the coast from Peugeot Sound.
Not content with manufacturing the electricity for his street
railways in the old-fashioned way, in power-houses, Daylight
organized the Sierra and Salvador Power Company. This
immediately assumed large proportions. Crossing the San Joaquin
Valley on the way from the mountains, and plunging through the
Contra Costa hills, there were many towns, and even a robust
city, that could be supplied with power, also with light; and it
became a street- and house-lighting project as well. As soon as
the purchase of power sites in the Sierras was rushed through,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: knife and a stone, while Amyas watched, a little puzzled and
startled, as Yeo's fiery reputation came into his mind. Was he
really a salamander-sprite, and going to warm his inside by a meal
of burning tinder? But now Yeo, in his solemn methodical way,
pulled out of his bosom a brown leaf, and began rolling a piece of
it up neatly to the size of his little finger; and then, putting
the one end into his mouth and the other on the tinder, sucked at
it till it was a-light; and drinking down the smoke, began puffing
it out again at his nostrils with a grunt of deepest satisfaction,
and resumed his dog-trot by Amyas's side, as if he had been a
walking chimney.
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