| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: country would open their inexhaustible purses!
The day passed. To how many excited and impatient people it seemed to
contain more than twenty-four hours! And each hour held far more than
sixty minutes! There came no answer, no letter, no telegram! The
night following, there was still no news. And it was the same the
next day and the next.
There came, however another result, which had been fully foreseen.
The cables informed Europe of what the United States government had
done. The different Powers of the Old World hoped also to obtain
possession of the wonderful invention. Why should they not struggle
for an advantage so tremendous? Why should they not enter the contest
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: just religion, or of some unselfish patriotism, and law of such
national life as must be the foundation of religion.
Nothing that I have ever said is more true or necessary--nothing has
been more misunderstood or misapplied--than my strong assertion that
the arts can never be right themselves, unless their motive is
right. It is misunderstood this way: weak painters, who have never
learned their business, and cannot lay a true line, continually come
to me, crying out--"Look at this picture of mine; it MUST be good, I
had such a lovely motive. I have put my whole heart into it, and
taken years to think over its treatment." Well, the only answer for
these people is--if one had the cruelty to make it--"Sir, you cannot
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: place from top to bottom. From its exterior it might have been
uninhabited, even long deserted. But to one who knew, it was quite
the normal condition, quite what one would expect. Those who lived
there confined their activities mostly to the night; and their
exodus to their labors began when the labors of the world at large
ended - with the fall of darkness.
For a little while she watched the place, and kept glancing up and
down the street; and then, seizing her opportunity when for half a
block or more the street was free of pedestrians, she stole forward
and reached the tenement door. It was half open, and she slipped
quickly inside into the hall.
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