| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: and bayous. With every heavy push, the weary boy would sigh
out,--"Santo Antonio!--Santo Antonio!" Sullen Sparicio himself
at last burst into vociferations of ill-humor:--"Santo
Antonio?--Ah! santissimu e santu diavulu! ... Sacramentu paescite
vegnu un asidente!--malidittu lu Signuri!" All through the
morning they walked and pushed, trudged and sighed and swore; and
the minutes dragged by more wearily than the shuffling of their
feet. "Managgia Cristo co tutta a croce!" ... "Santissimu e
santu diavulu!" ...
But as they reached at last the first of the broad bright lakes,
the heat lifted, the breeze leaped up, the loose sail flapped and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: worse things there are in the world--That it is no way a proper subject for
satire--
--Why then was it left so? And here without staying for my reply, shall I
be called as many blockheads, numsculs, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninny-
hammers, goosecaps, joltheads, nincompoops, and sh..t-a-beds--and other
unsavoury appellations, as ever the cake-bakers of Lerne cast in the teeth
of King Garangantan's shepherds--And I'll let them do it, as Bridget said,
as much as they please; for how was it possible they should foresee the
necessity I was under of writing the 84th chapter of my book, before the
77th, &c?
--So I don't take it amiss--All I wish is, that it may be a lesson to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: fire drinking hot coffee and laughing at Orde's description of
Reed's plug hat.
To Orde's satisfaction, the sheriff did not reappear. Reed
evidently now pinned his faith to the State troops.
All night the work went on, the men spelling each other at intervals
of every few hours. By three o'clock the main abutments had been
removed. The gate was then blocked to prevent its fall when its
nether support should be withdrawn, and two men, leaning over
cautiously, began at arm's-length to deliver their axe-strokes
against the middle of the sill-timbers of the sluice itself,
notching each heavy beam deeply that the force of the current might
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