| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: "corner" now only two victims,--Rostocker and Aronson.
They owed this invidious differentiation to a number
of causes: they had been the chief sellers of stock,
being between them responsible for the delivery of
8,500 Rubber Consols shares, which they could not get;
they were men of larger fortune than the other "shorts,"
and therefore could with safety be squeezed longest;
what was fortunate for him under the circumstances,
they were the two men against whom Thorpe's personal grudge
seemed able to maintain itself most easily.
For these reasons, they had already been mulcted in differences
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: said the girl, firmly, "you will remain at this bench
for ten minutes after I have left. I do not mean to
accuse you, but you are probably aware that autos
generally bear the monogram of their owner. Again,
good-night"
Swift and stately she moved away through the
dusk. The young man watched her graceful form
as she reached the pavement at the park's edge, and
turned up along it toward the corner where stood the
automobile. Then he treacherously and unhesitat-
ingly began to dodge and skim among the park trees
The Voice of the City |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: and how the 'sweet savour' was borne 'to the heavens by the winds;
'But the blessed Gods were averse and received it not.
For exceedingly did they hate the holy Ilium,
Both Priam and the people of the spear-skilled king.'
So that it was in vain for them to sacrifice and offer gifts, seeing that
they were hateful to the Gods, who are not, like vile usurers, to be gained
over by bribes. And it is foolish for us to boast that we are superior to
the Lacedaemonians by reason of our much worship. The idea is
inconceivable that the Gods have regard, not to the justice and purity of
our souls, but to costly processions and sacrifices, which men may
celebrate year after year, although they have committed innumerable crimes
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