| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: are regularly fixed, raising the pouch towards the middle;[12] and
into the slip-rope he must insert a large, long stone, to prevent the
net from stretching in the opposite direction, when it has got the
hare inside. He will fix the rows of poles with stretches of net
sufficiently high to prevent the creature leaping over.[13] In
hunting, "no procrastination" should be the motto, since it is
sportsmanlike at once and a proof of energy by all means to effect a
capture quickly. He will stretch the larger (haye) nets upon level
spaces; and proceed to plant the road nets upon roads and at
converging points of tracks and footpaths;[14] he must attach the
border-ropes to the ground, draw together the elbows or side ends of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: neighbor, the aged English lady of whom our hostess had spoken.
"I did not see her again that day. The next day, when I had begun
to paint at the end of that beautiful valley, which you know
extends as far as Etretat, lifting my eyes suddenly, I perceived
something singularly attired standing on the crest of the
declivity; it looked like a pole decked out with flags. It was
she. On seeing me, she suddenly disappeared. I re-entered the
house at midday for lunch, and took my seat at the common table,
so as to make the acquaintance of this old and original creature.
But she did not respond to my polite advances, was insensible
even to my little attentions. I poured water out for her with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Then Annie heard Eliza speak in a small, sweet
voice, which yet, to one who understood her, carried in
it a sting of malice. "How very strange!" said Eliza.
Jane spoke next. She echoed Eliza, but her voice
was more emphatic and seemed multiple, as echoes
do. "Yes, very strange indeed," said Jane.
"Dear Annie is really very singular lately. It
has distressed us all, especially father," said Susan,
but deprecatingly.
Then Imogen spoke, and to the point. "Annie
must be in that house," said she. "She went in
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