| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: look used up."
Jim Lash wagged his half-bald, sunburned head, "Musta been more'n
tough for Rojas."
"Gale, Laddy tells me one of our neighbors, fellow named Carter, is
going to Casita," put in Belding. "Here's a chance to get word to
your friend the soldier."
"Oh, that will be fine!" exclaimed Dick. "I declare I'd forgotten
Thorne....How is Miss Castaneda? I hope--"
"She's all right, Gale. Been up and around the patio for two days.
Like all the Spanish--the real thing--she's made of Damascus
steel. We've been getting acquainted. She and Nell made friends
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: two primary laws of living things. Some of them are celebrities of
long-standing renown, who are mentioned in all the books.
Certain Mygales {36} inhabit a burrow, like the Narbonne Lycosa,
but of a perfection unknown to the brutal Spider of the waste-
lands. The Lycosa surrounds the mouth of her shaft with a simple
parapet, a mere collection of tiny pebbles, sticks and silk; the
others fix a movable door to theirs, a round shutter with a hinge,
a groove and a set of bolts. When the Mygale comes home, the lid
drops into the groove and fits so exactly that there is no
possibility of distinguishing the join. If the aggressor persist
and seek to raise the trap-door, the recluse pushes the bolt, that
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: me that I did not do my work, and do it well. The bellows which I worked
by main strength was, after I left, moved by a steam-engine.
Douglass, Frederick. "Reconstruction."
Atlantic Monthly 18 (1866): 761-765.
RECONSTRUCTION
The assembling of the Second Session of the Thirty-ninth Congress
may very properly be made the occasion of a few earnest words
on the already much-worn topic of reconstruction.
Seldom has any legislative body been the subject of a solicitude
more intense, or of aspirations more sincere and ardent.
There are the best of reasons for this profound interest.
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