| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: farms, and they were seeking to find "the way out" by issuing
paper money, or money from some cheap metal with which they could
repudiate their debts. Banks could not collect their loans,
merchants could not get money for their goods, manufacturers were
swamped by their pay-rolls and had to discharge their men. Coxey
was raising a great army of idle men to march on Washington and
demand that the government should feed and clothe the people.
All my savings had long since gone, and from the high life in
the Pie Boarding-House I had descended to my days of bread and
water. All men were in a common misery. If a hobo managed to get
a steak and cook it in the bushes by the railroad track, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Pausing now and then,
On the mystic union pondering
Between gods and men;
Half believing, wholly feeling,
With supreme delight,
How the gods, themselves concealing,
Lift men to their height.
Or in Thebes, the hundred-gated,
In the thoroughfare
Breathing, as if consecrated,
A diviner air;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "And d'ye know, on my faith I think Burnett'd have done it, only
she pipes up, sweet and pert as you please: 'Mr. Auctioneer, will
you kindly proceed with the sale in the customary manner? I've
other business to attend to, and I can't afford to wait all night
on men who don't know their own minds.' And then she smiles at
Burnett, as well--you know, one of those fetching smiles, and damme
if Burnett doesn't begin singing out: 'Goin', goin', goin'--last
bid--goin', goin' for fifty-five sovereigns--goin', goin', gone--to
you, Miss--er--what name, please?'
"'Joan Lackland,' says she, with a smile to me; and that's how she
bought the Martha."
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