| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: speech. Whenever there was time, he would go to the rear platform
of the car and bow as the train moved away, or utter a few words
of thanks and greeting. At the capitals of Indiana, Ohio, New
York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and in the cities of
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia, halts
of one or two days were made, the time being filled with formal
visits and addresses to each house of the legislature, street
processions, large evening receptions, and other ceremonies.
Party foes as well as party friends made up these expectant
crowds. Every eye was eager, every ear strained, to get some hint
of the thoughts and purposes of the man who was to be the guide
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: yet they seemed always to be in the amusing part of lessons, the
intervals between the dull dark tunnels, where there were waysides
and jolly views. Yet the morning was brought to a violent as end
by Morgan's suddenly leaning his arms on the table, burying his
head in them and bursting into tears: at which Pemberton was the
more startled that, as it then came over him, it was the first time
he had ever seen the boy cry and that the impression was
consequently quite awful.
The next day, after much thought, he took a decision and, believing
it to be just, immediately acted on it. He cornered Mr. and Mrs.
Moreen again and let them know that if on the spot they didn't pay
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: He who beholdetb all existing creatures observetb well the
zeal that
is in mortals.
2 The holy sage, renowned afar, directeth his hymns to you,
O Varuna
and Mitra,-
He whose devotions, sapient Gods, ye favour so that ye fill,
as
'twere, with power his autumns.
3 From the wide earth, O Varuna and Mitra from the great lofty
heaven,
The Rig Veda |
