| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: all sorts Of pigments, such as lamp-blacks, tars, carbonized vegetable
matters, soots of oils and fats, and the various carbonized animal substances.
"White light is composed of the seven primary colors," he argued to me. "But
it is itself, of itself, invisible. Only by being reflected from objects do it
and the objects become visible. But only that portion of it that is reflected
becomes visible. For instance, here is a blue tobacco-box. The white light
strikes against it, and, with one exception, all its component colors--violet,
indigo, green, yellow, orange, and red--are absorbed. The one exception is
BLUE. It is not absorbed, but reflected.Therefore the tobacco-box gives us a
sensation of blueness. We do not see the other colors because they are
absorbed. We see only the blue. For the same reason grass is GREEN. The green
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: taste.
"But we need men like you in the House of Lords," pleaded the
Duke.
"I cannot think of it," said Cleggett. And then, not wishing to
hurt the Englishman's feelings, he said kindly: "But I will
promise you this: if I should change my mind and decide to become
a member of any aristocracy at all, it will be the English
aristocracy."
The Duke thanked Cleggett for the compliment; and Cleggett
thought he had heard the end of it.
He was, therefore, surprised, a few weeks later, as he was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: The sighing wind and the twittering quail and the singing birds,
even the rare and seldom-occurring hollow crack of a sliding
weathered stone, only thickened and deepened that insulated
silence.
Venters and Bess had vagrant minds.
"Bess, did I tell you about my horse Wrangle?" inquired Venters.
"A hundred times," she replied.
"Oh, have I? I'd forgotten. I want you to see him. He'll carry us
both."
"I'd like to ride him. Can he run?"
"Run? He's a demon. Swiftest horse on the sage! I hope he'll stay
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