| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: feat of engineering, and came home to Silverado.
The moon shone in at the eastern doors and windows, and over
the lumber on the platform. The one tall pine beside. the
ledge was steeped in silver. Away up the canyon, a wild cat
welcomed us with three discordant squalls. But once we had
lit a candle, and began to review our improvements, homely in
either sense, and count our stores, it was wonderful what a
feeling of possession and permanence grow up in the hearts of
the lords of Silverado. A bed had still to be made up for
Strong, and the morning's water to be fetched, with clinking
pail; and as we set about these household duties, and showed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: 130 years after it was spoken. We will rerelease the
Inaugural Address of President Kennedy, officially on
November 22, 1993, on the day of the 30th anniversary
of his assassination.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863
on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: white straw hat, neat low-cut tan shoes, linen of the
well-known "immaculate" trade mark, a neat, narrow
four-in-hand tie, and carried a- slender, neat bamboo
cane.
I laughed loudly and vulgarly.
"What you want to do," said I to the sociologist, "is
to establish a reformatory for the Logical Vicious Circle.
Or else I've got wheels. It looks to me as if things are
running round and round in circles instead of getting
anywhere."
"What do you mean?" asked the man of progress.
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