| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: GOT to mother something or other. Miss Lucy
was one of that kind. I knowed all in a flash, whilst I
looked at her there, why she had adopted Martha
fur her child.
It was a wonderful look that was onto her face.
And it was a wonderful face that look was onto. I
felt like I had knowed her forever when I seen her
there. Like the thoughts of her the doctor had been
carrying around with him fur years and years, and
that I had caught him thinking oncet or twicet, had
been my thoughts too, all my life.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: down, crowding the little place as thick as it would hold; the rest
gathered thick at the door, and all of them had no thought of departing.
The notion to stay was plain on their faces.
Barker surveyed them. "Give the doctor a show now, boys," said he.
"You've done it all so far. Don't crowd my elbows. I'll want you," he
whispered to McLean.
At the argument of fair-play, obedience swept over them like a veering of
wind. "Don't crowd his elbows," they began to say at once, and told each
other to come away. "We'll sure give the Doc room. You don't want to be
shovin' your auger in, Chalkeye. You want to get yourself pretty near
absent." The room thinned of them forthwith. "Fix her up good, Doc," they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: remember the number of Americans killed in action?--less than thirty-six
thousand;--those English women worked on, seven millions of them at
least, on milk carts, motor-busses, elevators, steam engines, and in
making ammunition. Never before had any woman worked on more than 150 of
the 500 different processes that go to the making of munitions. They now
handled T. N. T., and fulminate of mercury, more deadly still; helped
build guns, gun carriages, and three-and-a-half ton army cannons; worked
overhead traveling cranes for moving the boilers of battleships: turned
lathes, made every part of an aeroplane. And who were these seven million
women? The eldest daughter of a duke and the daughter of a general won
distinction in advanced munition work. The only daughter of an old Army
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