| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: from the front, and away from the drums. Now are you
satisfied?"
"Are they on the right-hand side? I want on the right--no,
I want on the left. I want--I don' know, I don' know."
The seller roared. McTeague moved slowly away, gazing
stupidly at the blue slips of pasteboard. Two girls took
his place at the wicket. In another moment McTeague came
back, peering over the girls' shoulders and calling to the
seller:
"Are these for Monday night?"
The other disdained reply. McTeague retreated again
McTeague |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: special dish had he ordered for my little parties; and we met at
Armour's fireside like the genial old acquaintances we were.
Another voice without and presently I was nodding to Rosario and
vaguely wondering why he looked uncomfortable.
'I'm sorry,' said Armour, as we sat down, 'I've got nothing but
beer. If I had known you were all coming, no vintage that crawls up
the hill would have been good enough for me.' He threw the bond of
his wonderful smile round us as we swallowed his stuff, and our
hearts were lightened. 'You fellows,' he went on nodding at the
other two, 'might happen any day, but my friend John Philips comes
to me across aerial spaces; he is a star I've trapped--you don't do
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: reason why the communal ownership of land and capital
would be likely to have a beneficial effect upon
human nature, for human nature, as it exists in adult
men and women, is by no means a fixed datum, but
a product of circumstances, education and opportunity
operating upon a highly malleable native
disposition.
What is true of competitiveness is equally true
of love of power. Power, in the form in which it is
now usually sought, is power of command, power of
imposing one's will upon others by force, open or
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