| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: was invariably higher than on a weekday. For example,
there is a shortage of paper for cigarettes. People roll
cigarettes in old newspapers. It occurred to the Central Committee
of the Papermakers' Union to organize a "Sundaying"
with the object of sending cigarette paper to the soldiers in
the Red Army. Six factories took part. Here is a table showing the
output of these factories during the "Sundaying" and the average
weekday output. The figures are in poods.
Made on Average week
Factory the Sunday Day Output
Krasnogorodskaya.........615...............450
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: on Bassett. He hated and feared Bassett. He hated Dick, but he was
not afraid of him. He lighted a cigarette and faced Dick with a
malicious smile.
"So here we are, again, Jud!" he said. "But with this change, that
now it's you who are the respectable member of the community, and
I'm the - well, we'll call it the butterfly."
There was unmistakable insult in his tone, and Dick caught it.
"Then I take it you're still living off your sister?"
The contempt in Dick's voice whipped the color to Gregory's face
and clenched his fist. But he relaxed in a moment and laughed.
"Don't worry, Bassett," he said, his eyes on Dick. "We haven't any
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: yawned. Here and there he saw a sheen of white bones. Now too the path
began to grow less and less marked; then it became a mere trace, with a
footmark here and there; then it ceased altogether. He sang no more, but
struck forth a path for himself, until it reached a mighty wall of rock,
smooth and without break, stretching as far as the eye could see. "I will
rear a stair against it; and, once this wall climbed, I shall be almost
there," he said bravely; and worked. With his shuttle of imagination he
dug out stones; but half of them would not fit, and half a month's work
would roll down because those below were ill chosen. But the hunter worked
on, saying always to himself, "Once this wall climbed, I shall be almost
there. This great work ended!"
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