| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Already a boat had been lowered and was putting in for
land. Billy waded out to the end of the short shelving beach
and waited.
The sight that met the eyes of the rescuers was one that
filled them with awe, for they saw before them a huge, giant
of a white man, half-naked except for a few tattered rags, who
wore the long sword of an ancient samurai at his side, a
modern revolver at his hip, and bore in his brawny hand the
heavy war spear of a head-hunter. Long black hair, and a
huge beard covered the man's head and face, but clean gray
eyes shone from out of the tangle, and a broad grin welcomed them.
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: physical conditions of a country as the most important for its inhabitants;
whereas it cannot, I think, be disputed that the nature of the other
inhabitants, with which each has to compete, is at least as important, and
generally a far more important element of success. Now if we look to those
inhabitants of the Galapagos Archipelago which are found in other parts of
the world (laying on one side for the moment the endemic species, which
cannot be here fairly included, as we are considering how they have come to
be modified since their arrival), we find a considerable amount of
difference in the several islands. This difference might indeed have been
expected on the view of the islands having been stocked by occasional means
of transport--a seed, for instance, of one plant having been brought to one
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: beast was destroying its neighbor. I knew what it meant--Eve had
eaten that fruit, and death was come into the world. ... The
tigers ate my horse, paying no attention when I ordered them to
desist, and they would even have eaten me if I had stayed--which
I didn't, but went away in much haste. ... I found this place,
outside the Park, and was fairly comfortable for a few days, but
she has found me out. Found me out, and has named the place
Tonawanda--says it looks like that. In fact, I was not sorry she
came, for there are but meagre pickings here, and she brought some
of those apples. I was obliged to eat them, I was so hungry. It
was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real
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