| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: peaceful and inoffensive demeanor towards the tribes along the
Mexican border, and find that every violation of their rights is
followed by the avenging arm of our government, the result must
be, that, reduced to a wretchedness and want which they can ill
brook, and feeling the certainty of punishment for every attempt
to ameliorate their condition in the only way they as yet
comprehend, they will abandon their unfruiful territory and
remove to the neighborhood of the Mexican lands, and there carry
on a vigorous predatory warfare indiscriminately upon the
Mexicans and our own people trading or travelling in that
quarter.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: "Who's 'everybody'? Out with their names, or
ther'll be an idiot short."
He got up and looked distressed, and fumbled his
hat, and says:
"I'm sorry, and I warn't expecting it. They told
me to. They all told me to. They all said, kiss her;
and said she'd like it. They all said it -- every one of
them. But I'm sorry, m'am, and I won't do it no
more -- I won't, honest."
"You won't, won't you? Well, I sh'd RECKON you
won't!"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: either at the house of friends, or at his own, playing whist, or
reading Milton's "Allegro" and "Penseroso" to his wife and daugh-
ters. On Friday evening, about eight o'clock, as the Professor
was saying good-bye to a friend on the steps of his house at
Cambridge, the three police officers drove up to the door and
asked him to accompany them to the Medical College. It was
proposed, they said, to make a further search there that evening,
and his presence was considered advisable. Webster assented
immediately, put on his boots, his hat and coat, and got into the
hired coach. As they drove towards the city, Webster spoke to
the officers of Parkman's disappearance, and suggested that they
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
