| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: clap, and now all means of communication between Eastern
and Western Siberia have been stopped. Moreover, Ivan
Ogareff, thirsting for vengeance, aims at the life of my
brother!"
The Czar had become excited whilst speaking, and now
paced up and down with hurried steps. The chief of police
said nothing, but he thought to himself that, during the
time when the emperors of Russia never pardoned an exile,
schemes such as those of Ivan Ogareff could never have
been realized. Approaching the Czar, who had thrown
himself into an armchair, he asked, "Your majesty has of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: gets better." Fifty times had Ezra Stowbody informed the
public that Carol had once asked, "Shall I indorse this check
on the back?" Fifty times had Sam Clark called to her,
"Where'd you steal that hat?" Fifty times had the mention
of Barney Cahoon, the town drayman, like a nickel in a slot
produced from Kennicott the apocryphal story of Barney's
directing a minister, "Come down to the depot and get your
case of religious books--they're leaking!"
She came home by the unvarying route. She knew every
house-front, every street-crossing, every billboard, every tree,
every dog. She knew every blackened banana-skin and empty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: and looking them quietly in the face; as if this was just the
spot she had been seeking for, and as if it were all a matter
of course.
"This, then," said Cadmus, gazing around him, "this is to be my
home."
It was a fertile and lovely plain, with great trees flinging
their sun-speckled shadows over it, and hills fencing it in
from the rough weather At no great distance, they beheld a
river gleaming in the sunshine. A home feeling stole into the
heart of poor Cadmus. He was very glad to know that here he
might awake in the morning without the necessity of putting on
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