| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: of steam - and at that moment (I am told) much of the machinery was
already red-hot. The ship was sheered well to starboard of the
VANDALIA, the last remaining cable slipped. For a time - and there
was no onlooker so cold-blooded as to offer a guess at its duration
- the CALLIOPE lay stationary; then gradually drew ahead. The
highest speed claimed for her that day is of one sea-mile an hour.
The question of times and seasons, throughout all this roaring
business, is obscured by a dozen contradictions; I have but chosen
what appeared to be the most consistent; but if I am to pay any
attention to the time named by Admiral Kimberley, the CALLIOPE, in
this first stage of her escape, must have taken more than two hours
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: hard luck going from place to place, and all them
kinds is humans. But the real yeggman ain't
even a dog.
And oncet I went all the way from Chicago to
Baltimore with a serious, dern fool that said he was
a soshyologest, whatever them is, and was going
to put her all into a book about the criminal classes.
He worked hard trying to get at the reason I was
a hobo. Which they wasn't no reason, fur I wasn't
no hobo. But I didn't want to disappoint that
feller and spoil his book fur him. So I tells him
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: my assistance in a matter which he had undertaken for the
Emperor, often brought me various kinds of meat, or other
delicacies of a like nature, from the imperial kitchens.
I want you to visit three of the imperial temples in these
beautiful palace grounds. The first is a tall, three-story
building at the head of that magnificent Lotus Lake. In it there
stands a Buddhist deity with one thousand heads and one thousand
arms and hands. Standing upon the ground floor its head reaches
almost to the roof. Its body, face and arms are as white as snow.
There is nothing else in the building--nothing but this
mild-faced Buddhist divinity for that brilliant, black-eyed ruler
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