| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: "What did you make your money in?" he demanded, not with
entire distinctness of enunciation. "It wasn't rubber,
was it?"
Thorpe shook his head. "There's no money in rubber.
I'm entirely in finance--on the Stock Exchange--dealing
in differences," he replied, with a serious face.
The explanation seemed wholly acceptable to Tavender.
He mused upon it placidly for a time, with his reverend
head pillowed askew against the corner of the chair.
Then he let his cigar drop, and closed his eyes.
The master of the house bent forward, and noiselessly
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction
in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts
were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it--
all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered
from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war,
insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--
seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather
than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather
than let it perish. And the war came.
Second Inaugural Address |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: but with a steady motion, while all the company stood
by in awed silence. It was a wonderful thing, even to
those skilled in the arts of magic, wizardry and
sorcery, to realize that a single word could raise that
great, heavy island, with its immense glass Dome.
"Why, we're way above the lake now!" exclaimed
Dorothy from the window, when at last the island ceased
to move.
"That is because we lowered the level of the water,"
explained Glinda.
They could hear the Skeezers cheering lustily in the
Glinda of Oz |
