| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: thousand dollars each, and they left.
"Alone with that box, my panic increased. When Elmer returned
with Teddy, I told him what had happened. He wished to open the
box, having a vague idea that perhaps after all it did not really
contain what they had said was in it. But I could not bear the
thought of its being opened. I refused to allow Elmer to look
into it.
"I determined that I would ship the box at once to some
fictitious personage, and then take the next ship back to
England.
"I hastily wrote a card, which I tacked on the box, consigning it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: out? And do you remember how the dawn came up on the big snow
peaks across the way--and all the canon below us filled with
whirling mists--and the steel stars leaving us one by one? Where
could I find room for that in English paddocks? And do you
recall the day we trailed across the Yuma deserts, and the sun
beat into our skulls, and the dry, brittle hills looked like
papier-mache, and the grey sage-bush ran off into the rise of the
hills; and then came sunset and the hard, dry mountains grew
filmy, like gauze veils of many colours, and melted and glowed
and faded to slate blue, and the stars came out? The English
hills are rounded and green and curried, and the sky is near, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: beg pardon--The fits of morbid sensibility which had tormented
this unfortunate gentleman, were rendered henceforth more acute
by remorse, which he, of all men, was least capable of having
incurred, or of sustaining when it became his unhappy lot. His
paroxysms of agony could not be concealed from the lady to whom
he was betrothed; and it must be confessed they were of an
alarming and fearful nature. He comforted himself, that, at the
expiry of his imprisonment, he could form with his wife and
friend a society, encircled by which he might dispense with more
extensive communication with the world. He was deceived; before
that term elapsed, his friend and his betrothed bride were man
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