| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: his statement of facts. So far from Jupiter and Saturn being
cold, observation plainly indicates that they are prodigiously
hot, if not even incandescent and partly self-luminous; the
explanation being that, by reason of their huge bulk, they still
retain much of the primitive heat which smaller planets have more
quickly radiated away. As for M. Figuier's statement, that polar
snows have been witnessed on these planets, it is simply untrue;
no such thing has ever been seen there. Mars, on the other hand,
has been observed to resemble in many important respects its near
neighbour, the Earth; whence our author declares that if an
aeronaut were to shoot clear of terrestrial gravitation and land
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: possible extenuating circumstance was brought to bear upon his
sentence. Five years only was to be the term of his imprisonment,
his punishment for the crime of a single moment of anger.
His wife waited for him in patient love. She did not go to Graz,
but continued to live in the old mansion with the mansard roof.
Her father was with her. The brother Theobald, the cause of all
this suffering to those who had shielded him at the expense of
their own happiness, had at last done the only good deed of his
life - had put an end to his useless existence with his own hand.
Father and daughter waited patiently for the return of the man
who had sinned and suffered for their sake. They spoke of him
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: At last, as the conviction of nightfall forced itself
upon her from the drenched darkness outside, she bent
to put her hand to the key. Then, with a little start
of surprise, she stood erect. Someone was shutting
an umbrella in the doorway, preparatory to entering the shop.
It was her brother, splashed and wet to the knees, but with
a glowing face, who pushed his way in, and confronted
her with a broad grin. There was such a masterful air
about him, that when he jovially threw an arm round her
gaunt waist, and gathered her up against his moist shoulder,
she surprised herself by a half-laughing submission.
The Market-Place |
