| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: "Forty-nine cents for coal, etc."
So far he was lowest. Quigg twisted his hat nervously, and
McGaw's coarse face grew red and white by turns.
Tom's bid was the last.
"Thomas Grogan, Rockville, S.I., thirty-eight cents for coal,
etc."
"Gentlemen," said Mr. Schwartz, quietly, "Thomas Grogan gets the
hauling."
VIII
POP MULLINS'S ADVICE
Almost every man and woman in the tenement district knew Oscar
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: lower men's standard of life, and make them less careful of their
spiritual welfare. This is the case, at all events, when
theologians oppose scientific conclusions on religious grounds,
and not simply from mental dulness or rigidity. And, in so far as
it is religious feeling which thus prompts resistance to
scientific innovation, it may be said, with some appearance of
truth, that there is a conflict between religion and science.
But there must always be two parties to a quarrel, and our
statement has to be modified as soon as we consider what the
scientific innovator impugns. It is not the emotional prompting
toward righteousness, it is not the yearning to live im Guten,
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: locksmith, changing colour. 'What dark history is this!'
'Halloa!' cried a hoarse voice in his ear. 'Halloa, halloa,
halloa! Bow wow wow. What's the matter here! Hal-loa!'
The speaker--who made the locksmith start as if he had been some
supernatural agent--was a large raven, who had perched upon the top
of the easy-chair, unseen by him and Edward, and listened with a
polite attention and a most extraordinary appearance of
comprehending every word, to all they had said up to this point;
turning his head from one to the other, as if his office were to
judge between them, and it were of the very last importance that he
should not lose a word.
Barnaby Rudge |
