| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: young Bushrod Butler, and these was big chiefs mostly
that wore splendid great turbans and simmeters, and
dressed like the Grand Mogul, and their families. But
as soon as we come to know them good, and like them
very much, it warn't Mister, nor Judge, nor nothing,
any more, but only Elleck, and Addy, and Jake, and
Hattie, and Jerry, and Buck, and so on.
And you know the more you join in with people in
their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and
dearer they come to be to you. Now we warn't cold
and indifferent, the way most travelers is, we was right
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: new creature trying to clod apples out of that forbidden tree.
Monday
The new creature says its name is Eve. That is all right, I have
no objections. Says it is to call it by when I want it to come.
I said it was superfluous, then. The word evidently raised me in
its respect; and indeed it is a large, good word, and will bear
repetition. It says it is not an It, it is a She. This is probably
doubtful; yet it is all one to me; what she is were nothing to me
if she would but go by herself and not talk.
Tuesday
She has littered the whole estate with execrable names and offensive
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: therefore mute. After living all his life as a farmer at Saint-
Leonard, he had bought the only habitable house in Montegnac and
cultivated with his own hands the land belonging to it. Though he knew
how to read and write, he would have been incapable of fulfilling his
functions were it not for the help of his clerk and the /juge de
paix/, who prepared his work for him. He was very anxious to have a
notary established in Montegnac, in order that he might shift the
burden of his responsibility on to that officer's shoulders. But the
poverty of the village and its outlying districts made such a
functionary almost useless, and the inhabitants had recourse when
necessary to the notaries of the chief town of the arrondissement.
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