| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: prove excellent practice for his man who was having difficulty
in finding opponents. Professor Cassidy thought so too, and
grinned for two hours straight after reading the challenge.
The details of the fight were quickly arranged. In accordance
with the state regulations it was to be a ten round, no
decision bout--the weight of the gloves was prescribed by
law.
The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to
go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some
there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a
good mill. When the "coming champion," as Billy's opponent
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: tremble like peacocks-crests above the vast domes, and plumed
them with softest white; it robed the saints in ermine; and it
danced over all its works, as if exulting in its beauty--beauty
which filled me with subtle, selfish yearning to keep such
evanescent loveliness for the little-while-longer of my whole
life, and with despair to think that even the poor lifeless
shadow of it could never be fairly reflected in picture or poem.
Through the wavering snowfall, the Saint Theodore upon one
of the granite pillars of the Piazzetta did not show so grim as
his wont is, and the winged lion on the other might have been a
winged lamb, so gentle and mild he looked by the tender light of
What is Man? |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: in the eye of foreign nations. be considered as rebels. The precedent
is somewhat dangerous to THEIR PEACE, for men to be in arms under the name
of subjects; we, on the spot, can solve the paradox: but to unite resistance
and subjection, requires an idea much too refined for common understanding.
FOURTHLY. -- Were a manifesto to be published, and despatched
to foreign courts, setting forth the miseries we have endured,
and the peaceable methods we have ineffectually used for redress;
declaring, at the same time, that not being able, any longer,
to live happily or safely under the cruel disposition of the British court,
we had been driven to the necessity of breaking off all connections with her;
at the same time, assuring all such courts of our peaceable disposition
Common Sense |
