| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: it only to march down a few blocks to the town's meager library,
where another hour flew past. Gradually an empty feeling in his
middle region became increasingly insistent, and briefly
exploring his pockets, Bill decided upon a restaurant where he
bought a stew and rolls for fifteen cents. Never had a supper
tasted so satisfying. After it, he strolled around the town,
feeling a pleasant warmth in his veins, a springiness to his
legs, a new song in his heart. It was so good to be free to go
where he pleased, to be his own master, if only for a stolen
hour, to keep out of sight of a cow or a plow. He wondered why he
had never done this before.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: out as suddenly as when ether brings at last to a patient,
after the roaring and the tumult in his brain, its blessed
foretaste of the deliciousness of death.
When Hope came again to consciousness, she found herself
approaching her own pier in a sail-boat, with several very wet
gentlemen around her, and little Jenny nestled close to her,
crying as profusely as if her pretty scarlet bathing-dress were
being wrung out through her eyes. Hope asked no questions, and
hardly felt the impulse to inquire what had happened. The
truth was, that in the temporary dizziness produced by her
prolonged swim, she had found herself in the track of a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: face down on his bunk with a one-hundred-eighty-pound live peg at
the end of each arm and leg.
"All ready, Denver," announced Frisco from the end of the left
foot.
Denver selected a pair of plain leather chaps with care and
proceeded to business. What he had to do he did with energy. It
is safe to say that at least one of those present can still
vividly remember this and testify to his thoroughness.
Mac drifted in after the disciplining. As foreman it was fitting
that he should be discreetly ignorant of what had occurred, but
he could not help saying:
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