| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: first witnesses was proving the bad blood and the threats
and all that, Tom Sawyer was alive and laying for them;
and the minute they was through, he went for them,
and done his level best to catch them in lies and spile
their testimony. But now, how different. When Lem first
begun to talk, and never said anything about speaking
to Jubiter or trying to borrow a dog off of him, he was
all alive and laying for Lem, and you could see he was
getting ready to cross-question him to death pretty soon,
and then I judged him and me would go on the stand
by and by and tell what we heard him and Jim Lane say.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: birch bark, bands of linen round his legs, a dirty,
unbleached shirt ragged at the shoulder, and a cap
the peak of which had been torn.
"Whose is 'ours'?"
"The Pirogov village herd."
"How old are you?
"I don't know."
"Can you read?"
"No, I can't."
"Didn't you go to school?"
"Yes, I did."
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: "I have said my prayers," replied Content, and
her blue eyes were full of horrified astonishment at
the suspicion.
"Then," said Sally, "you had better say them
over and add something. Pray that you may always
tell the truth."
"Yes, ma'am," said Content, in her little canary
pipe.
The rector and his wife went out. Sally switched
off the light with a snap as she passed. Out in the
hall she stopped and held her husband's arms hard.
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