| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: offer it none too much room consistently to develop. She had
engaged herself in short to the perfection of a type, and almost
anything square and smooth and whole had its weight for a person
still conscious herself of being a mere bruised fragment of
wreckage. But it contributed hugely at present to carry on the two
parallel lines of her experience in the cage and her experience out
of it. After keeping quiet for some time about this opposition she
suddenly--one Sunday afternoon on a penny chair in the Regent's
Park--broke, for him, capriciously, bewilderingly, into an
intimation of what it came to. He had naturally pressed more and
more on the point of her again placing herself where he could see
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: So then he got to wandering along, and pretty soon,
sure enough, he was telling! He was poking along through
his ups and downs, and when he come to that place he went
right along. He says:
"It was a confidence game. We played it on a julery-shop
in St. Louis. What we was after was a couple of noble
big di'monds as big as hazel-nuts, which everybody was
running to see. We was dressed up fine, and we played
it on them in broad daylight. We ordered the di'monds
sent to the hotel for us to see if we wanted to buy,
and when we was examining them we had paste counterfeits
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: together with the Objections, to the other House, by which
it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds
of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such Cases
the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays,
and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be
entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill
shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted)
after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law,
in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their
Adjournment prevent its Return, in which case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate
The United States Constitution |
