| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: drink all he could hold. Jim got a good deal of fun out of it, but Dick and
Hiram never cracked a smile. Possibly the latter two saw something far from
funny in the outlook; at any rate, they were silent, almost moody, and in a
hurry to be off.
Dick was so anxious to be on the trail that he helped me pack my pony, and
saddled Buell's horse. It was one thing to admire the big bay from the
ground, and it was another to be astride him. Target--that was his name-
-had a spirited temper, an iron mouth, and he had been used to a sterner
hand than mine. He danced all over the glade before he decided to behave
himself. Riding him, however, was such a great pleasure that a more timid
boy than I would have taken the risk. He would not let any horse stay near
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: the additional proviso that not less than 500 members of the National
Assembly voted. They thereby only made the impotent attempt, still to
exercise as a parliamentary minority, to which in their mind's eye they
prophetically saw themselves reduced, a power, that, at this very time,
when they still disposed over the parliamentary majority and over all
the machinery of government, was daily slipping from their weak hands.
Finally, the Constitution entrusts itself for safe keeping, in a
melodramatic paragraph, "to the watchfulness and patriotism of the whole
French people, and of each individual Frenchman," after having just
before, in another paragraph entrusted the "watchful" and the
"patriotic" themselves to the tender, inquisitorial attention of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: white men, your servants, the sailing-master, the crew whose duty
it was to. . . . Who would have been ready to die for you."
"I wonder why they should have--and why I should have asked them
for that sacrifice. However, I have no doubt they would have
died. Or would you have preferred me to take up my quarters on
board that man's brig? We were all fairly safe there. The real
reason why I insisted on coming in here was to be nearer to
you--to see for myself what could be or was being done. . . . But
really if you want me to explain my motives then I may just as
well say nothing. I couldn't remain outside for days without
news, in a state of horrible doubt. We couldn't even tell whether
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