| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: Patrick was one of Tattine's best friends and she loved to work with him and
to talk to him. Patrick was a fine old Irishman, there was no doubt whatever
about that, faithful and conscientious to the last degree. Every morning he
would drive over in his old buggy from his little farm in the Raritan Valley,
in abundant time to begin work on the minute of seven, and not until the
minute of six would he lay aside spade or hoe and turn his steps towards his
old horse tied under the tree, behind the barn. But the most attractive thing
about Patrick was his genial kindly smile, a smile that said as plainly as
words, that he had found life very comfortable and pleasant, and that he was
still more than content with it notwithstanding that his back was bowed with
work month in and month out, and the years were hurrying him fast on into old
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
MENALCAS
First this frail hemlock-stalk to you I give,
Which taught me "Corydon with love was fired
For fair Alexis," ay, and this beside,
"Who owns the flock?- Meliboeus?"
MOPSUS
But take you
This shepherd's crook, which, howso hard he begged,
Antigenes, then worthy to be loved,
Prevailed not to obtain- with brass, you see,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: written; I just haven't put it down on paper yet." The chairman
patted the man on the back and told him to keep up the good work.
A construction worker, watching this scene transpire, decided that
what was good enough for academe was good enough for him, so he sat
back and opened a beer. Presently his foreman came along and wanted
to know what was going on. Said the worker, "Oh, the hole is
already dug; I just haven't taken out the dirt yet." The foreman,
not having been enlightened by Higher Education, fired the worker,
right in the middle of his beer.
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A man on foot approached an abandoned auto wrecking yard that still
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