| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: "What you got to get?"
"Oh, I thought I'd look at a couple little dresses for
Pearlie."
"When I was your age I made every stitch you wore."
"Yeh, I bet they looked like it, too. This ain't the farm. I
got all I can do to tend to the house, without sewing."
"I did it. I did the housework and the sewin' and cookin', an'
besides----"
"A swell lot of housekeepin' you did. You don't need to tell
me."
The bickering grew to a quarrel. But in the end they took the
One Basket |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: Thus, for instance, the wood-work of a distant gallery was discovered
to be in flames, which were extinguished by Harry and his companions
at the risk of their lives, by employing engines filled with water
and carbonic acid, always kept ready in case of necessity.
The lamp used by the incendiary was found; but no clew whatever
as to who he could be.
Another time an inundation took place in consequence of the stanchions
of a water-tank giving way; and Mr. Starr ascertained beyond a doubt
that these supports had first of all been partially sawn through.
Harry, who had been overseeing the works near the place at the time,
was buried in the falling rubbish, and narrowly escaped death.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: 1970's were produced in ALL CAPS, no lower case. The
computers we used then didn't have lower case at all.
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The United States Bill of Rights.
The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
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