| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: were two great storehouses and a drying and curing house, where
the hops were to be stored and treated. All about were evidences
that the former engineer had already been hard at work. The
ground had been put in readiness to receive the crop and a
bewildering, innumerable multitude of poles, connected with a
maze of wire and twine, had been set out. Farther on at a turn
of the road, they came upon Dyke himself, driving a farm wagon
loaded with more poles. He was in his shirt sleeves, his
massive, hairy arms bare to the elbow, glistening with sweat, red
with heat. In his bell-like, rumbling voice, he was calling to
his foreman and a boy at work in stringing the poles together.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain: light pat and say humbly, "Lay still, Marse Tom," then give the real
Tom a pat and say with severity, "Lay _still_, Chambers! Does you want
me to take somep'n _to_ you?"
As she progressed with her practice, she was surprised to see how steadily
and surely the awe which had kept her tongue reverent and her manner
humble toward her young master was transferring itself to her speech
and manner toward the usurper, and how similarly handy she was becoming
in transferring her motherly curtness of speech and peremptoriness of
manner to the unlucky heir of the ancient house of Driscoll.
She took occasional rests from practicing, and absorbed herself in
calculating her chances.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: emigrants spoke the same tongue; they were all offsets from the
same people. Born in a country which had been agitated for
centuries by the struggles of faction, and in which all parties
had been obliged in their turn to place themselves under the
protection of the laws, their political education had been
perfected in this rude school, and they were more conversant with
the notions of right and the principles of true freedom than the
greater part of their European contemporaries. At the period of
their first emigrations the parish system, that fruitful germ of
free institutions, was deeply rooted in the habits of the
English; and with it the doctrine of the sovereignty of the
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