| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: with his hands.
"She turns her head!" he cried. "Take her away,--she follows me
with her eyes! Paint her head black, and cover it up!"
With some difficulty he was borne to his bed, but he would not rest
until assured that his orders had been obeyed, and the painting
covered for the time with a coat of lamp-black. A low, prolonged
attack of fever followed, during which the presence of Helena was
indispensable to his comfort. She ventured to leave the room only
while he slept. He was like a child in her hands; and when she
commended his patience or his good resolutions, his face beamed
with joy and gratitude. He determined (in good faith, this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: fast and passed out through one distributor; fairly nice eggs did not
reach the bottom, and were drawn off through another sluice, and so on.
This saved the wages of the egg twirlers, whose method of candling eggs,
as it was called, was far less rapid than the Separator. And when I
learned that one house in St. Louis alone twirled 50,000 eggs in a day,
the possible profits of the Egg Trust became clear to me. But they were
not so clear to Ethel. She said that you could not monopolise hens. That
they would always be laying eggs and putting it in the power of
competitors to hatch them by incubators. Nor did she have confidence in
the Pasteurised Feeder. 'Even if you get the parents to adopt it,' she
said, 'you cannot get the children. If they do not like the taste of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: eyes that would fain have pierced the intervening distance.
The descent of the pass began under difficulties. Sharp stones
and cactus spikes penetrated the front tires, bursting them with
ripping reports. It took time to replace them. The planks were
called into requisition to cross soft places. A jagged point of
projecting rock had to be broken with a sledge. At length a huge
stone appeared to hinder any further advance. Madeline caught
her breath. There was no room to turn the car. But Link Stevens
had no intention of such a thing. He backed the car to a
considerable distance, then walked forward. He appeared to be
busy around the boulder for a moment and returned down the road
The Light of Western Stars |
