| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: roads. Men, deserting their homes, made hurried bundles of their most
precious belongings and set free their livestock, cows, sheep, pigs,
which fled in all directions. What disorder resulted from this
agglomeration, human and animal, under darkest night, amid forests,
threatened by the fires of the volcano, along the border of marshes
whose waters might be upheaved and overflow! With the earth itself
threatening to disappear from under the feet of the fugitives! Would
they be in time to save themselves, if a cascade of glowing lava came
rolling down the slope of the mountain across their route?
Nevertheless, some of the chief and shrewder farm owners were not
swept away in this mad flight, which they did their best to restrain.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: sea. No city of the world is so well stored of ships as is that.
And all those of the city and of the country worship idols. In
that country be double sithes more birds than be here. There be
white geese, red about the neck, and they have a great crest as a
cock's comb upon their heads; and they be much more there than they
be here, and men buy them there all quick, right great cheap. And
there is great plenty of adders of whom men make great feasts and
eat them at great solemnities; and he that maketh there a feast be
it never so costly, an he have no adders he hath no thank for his
travail.
Many good cities there be in that country and men have great plenty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "So be. When I passed the parting with Tilly that night I gave
her the word that I was going to be around for a week or so, and
that I wanted to see more of her. Not thick-skinned, her kind,
when it came to showing like and dislike, and she looked her
pleasure for the honest girl she was. Ay, a striking lass, and I
didn't wonder that Chief George was taken with her.
"Everything my way. Took the wind from his sails on the first
leg. I was for getting her aboard and sailing down Wrangel way
till it blew over, leaving him to whistle; but I wasn't to get her
that easy. Seems she was living with an uncle of hers--guardian,
the way such things go--and seems he was nigh to shuffling off
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