| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "Dog he stop 'm along house, night-time he walk about," Gogoomy was
saying, perforce in beche-de-mer English, because he was talking to
others beside his own tribesmen. "You fella boy catch 'm one fella
pig, put 'm kai-kai belong him along big fella fish-hook. S'pose
dog he walk about catch 'm kai-kai, you fella boy catch 'm dog
allee same one shark. Dog he finish close up. Big fella marster
sleep along big fella house. White Mary sleep along pickaninny
house. One fella Adamu he stop along outside pickaninny house.
You fella boy finish 'm dog, finish 'm Adamu, finish 'm big fella
marster, finish 'm White Mary, finish 'em altogether. Plenty
musket he stop, plenty powder, plenty tomahawk, plenty knife-fee,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: grow larger, Washington and Broadway, and then First and
Second, and so forth, being boldly plotted out as soon as the
community indulges in a plan. But, in the meanwhile, all the
life and most of the houses of Calistoga are concentrated
upon that street between the railway station and the road. I
never heard it called by any name, but I will hazard a guess
that it is either Washington or Broadway. Here are the
blacksmith's, the chemist's, the general merchant's, and Kong
Sam Kee, the Chinese laundryman's; here, probably, is the
office of the local paper (for the place has a paper - they
all have papers); and here certainly is one of the hotels,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: hands at the moment when the red light, reflected down from the
mirrors, struck full upon his eyes. He had dropped it in his
surprise and excitement. Franz found the little ring in the centre
of the room where it had rolled, and the supposed electrician
replaced it and rose to his feet, saying: "There, I've finished now."
Franz did not recognise the double meaning in the words. "Yes, it's
all right! I've finished here now," Muller repeated to himself.
For now he knew beyond a doubt that the red light was a signal - and
he knew also for whom this signal was intended. It was a signal for
Herbert Thorne! - Herbert Thorne, whom no single thought or suspicion
of Muller's had yet connected with the murder of Leopold Winkler.
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