| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: as not going to take a shot out of the front window
at me, fur luck, afore I can tell him what I want.
It seems to be a kind of habit in these here parts
to-night--I'm getting homesick fur Illinoise. But
I'll take a chancet."
"He won't shoot," says Bud, "if yo' go about it
right. Beauregard ain't going to be asleep with all
this going on in town to-night. Yo' rattle on the
iron gate and he'll holler to know what yo' all
want."
"If he don't shoot first," I says.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "What can be after signifyin'?" queried Olson.
"They are in trouble," I answered for all, "and it's up to us
to get back to them. Drop that carcass," I directed the men
carrying the meat, "and follow me!" I set off at a rapid run
in the direction of the harbor.
We ran for the better part of a mile without hearing anything
more from the direction of the harbor, and then I reduced the
speed to a walk, for the exercise was telling on us who had been
cooped up for so long in the confined interior of the U-33.
Puffing and panting, we plodded on until within about a mile of
the harbor we came upon a sight that brought us all up standing.
The Land that Time Forgot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: comes an education better than the rich man's son can buy.
As individuals, the Moose are not rich men, but in cooperation
they are wealthy. They have a plant at Mooseheart now valued at
five million dollars, and they provide a revenue of one million
two hundred thousand a year to maintain and enlarge it. They
received no endowment from state or nation. They wanted to
protect their children and they found a way to do it. They based
their system of education on the actual needs of men. They know
what life is, for they have lived it. In mine and field and
factory they had tasted the salty flavor of real things, and they
built a school that has this flavor.
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