| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: new-fangled bucket-machine with a crank. Jim says thet bread
beat any cake he ever eat, an' he wants you to show him how to
make some. Now, Miss Majesty, as superintendent of this ranch I
ought to know what's goin' on. Mebbe Jim is jest a-joshin' me.
Mebbe he's gone clean dotty. Mebbe I hev. An' beggin' your
pardon, I want to know if there's any truth in what Jim says Nels
says."
Whereupon it became necessary for Madeline to stifle her mirth
and to inform the sadly perplexed old cattleman that she had
received from the East a patent bread-mixer, and in view of the
fact that her household women had taken fright at the
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and
House of Representatives.
Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members
chosen every second Year by the People of the several States,
and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the
Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a citizen of the United States,
and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which
he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among
The United States Constitution |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: vexation were in his eyes.
"No, now--it was nothing. I was too reproachful."
"It would not have occurred to me if I had not seen something like
it done elsewhere--at Middleton lately," he said, thoughtfully,
after a while.
"By whom?"
"Don't ask it."
She scanned him narrowly. "I know quite well enough," she
returned, indifferently. "It was by my husband, and the woman was
Mrs. Charmond. Association of ideas reminded you when you saw
me....Giles--tell me all you know about that--please do, Giles!
The Woodlanders |
