| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: It is very difficult, I know, for a little boy like you to
understand how ice, and much more how soft snow, should have such
strength that it can grind this little stone, much more such
strength as to grind whole mountains into plains. You have never
seen ice and snow do harm. You cannot even recollect the Crimean
Winter, as it was called then; and well for you you cannot,
considering all the misery it brought at home and abroad. You
cannot, I say, recollect the Crimean Winter, when the Thames was
frozen over above the bridges, and the ice piled in little bergs
ten to fifteen feet high, which lay, some of them, stranded on the
shores, about London itself, and did not melt, if I recollect,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: caught at the saddle-horn.
"He's hunting leather," shouted a hundred voices.
One of the judges rode out and waved a hand. Texas slipped to the
ground disqualified, and made his dejected way back to his
deriding comrades. Some of them had endured similar misfortunes
earlier in the day. Therefore they found much pleasure in
condoling with him.
"If he'd only recollected to saw off the horn of his saddle, then
he couldn't 'a' found it when he went to hunt leather,"
mournfully commented one puncher in a shirt of robin's egg blue.
"'Twould have been most as good as to take the dust, wouldn't
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: respect the cheapness of building and fitting out their ships and
shallops; also furnishing, victualling, and providing them with all
kinds of stores; convenience for laying up the ships after the
voyage, room for erecting their magazines, warehouses, rope walks,
cooperages, etc., on the easiest terms; and especially for the
noisome cookery, which attends the boiling their blubber, which may
be on this river (as it ought to be) remote from any places of
resort. Then their nearness to the market for the oil when it is
made, and which, above all, ought to be the chief thing considered
in that trade, the easiness of their putting out to sea when they
begin their voyage, in which the same wind that carries them from
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