| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: "Come, my friend," he said, changing the subject, "apart from Mr.
Inglethorp, how did the evidence at the inquest strike you?"
"Oh, pretty much what I expected."
"Did nothing strike you as peculiar about it?"
My thoughts flew to Mary Cavendish, and I hedged:
"In what way?"
"Well, Mr. Lawrence Cavendish's evidence for instance?"
I was relieved.
"Oh, Lawrence! No, I don't think so. He's always a nervous
chap."
"His suggestion that his mother might have been poisoned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: and analyze his strength; but now, just now, he would take what
the gods had given him. And a thin little thought began to lift
itself, and he fell to wondering whatever under the sun he had
seen in Flossie, and to regret exceedingly that he had sent for
her. Of course, Freda was out of the running. His dumps were the
richest on Bonanza Creek, and they were many, while he was a man
of responsibility and position. But Loraine Lisznayi--she was
just the woman. Her life had been large; she could do the honors
of his establishment and give tone to his dollars.
But Freda smiled, and continued to smile, till he came to spend
much time with her. When she, too, rode down the street behind
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: roots as commonly called, of the Swedish turnip and Ruta baga, plants which
several botanists rank as varieties produced by cultivation from a common
parent: if this be not so, the case will then be one of analogous
variation in two so-called distinct species; and to these a third may be
added, namely, the common turnip. According to the ordinary view of each
species having been independently created, we should have to attribute this
similarity in the enlarged stems of these three plants, not to the vera
causa of community of descent, and a consequent tendency to vary in a like
manner, but to three separate yet closely related acts of creation.
With pigeons, however, we have another case, namely, the occasional
appearance in all the breeds, of slaty-blue birds with two black bars on
On the Origin of Species |
