| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: hear him. Now he was famous, but wherever he went he still
preached the gospel of the poor. And then there was one who was
known at the "millionaire Socialist." He had made a fortune in
business, and spent nearly all of it in building up a magazine,
which the post office department had tried to suppress, and had
driven to Canada. He was a quiet-mannered man, whom you would
have taken for anything in the world but a Socialist agitator.
His speech was simple and informal--he could not understand why
any one should get excited about these things. It was a process
of economic evolution, he said, and he exhibited its laws and
methods. Life was a struggle for existence, and the strong
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: potato-stalks, and were nearly all of them in debt to the office.
Thus, for the land that lay beyond the cultivated fields, which
the peasants hired, four times the price that its value would
bring in if invested at five per cent was taken from the
peasants.
Nekhludoff had known all this before, but he now saw it in a new
light, and wondered how he and others in his position could help
seeing how abnormal such conditions are. The steward's arguments
that if the land were let to the peasants the agricultural
implements would fetch next to nothing, as it would be impossible
to get even a quarter of their value for them, and that the
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: There was a sort of mansard there, with windows, and just enough
coping to keep him from rolling off.
"I thought you had fallen--all the way," I gasped, trying to keep
my lips from trembling. "I--oh, don't dangle your feet like
that!"
He did not seem at all glad of his escape. He sat there gloomily,
peering into the gulf beneath.
"If it wasn't so--er--messy and generally unpleasant," he replied
without looking up, "I would slide off and go the rest of the
way."
"You are childish," I said severely. "See if you can get through
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