| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: plantation what I hoped would be the last look. I
then placed myself in the bows of the sloop, and
there spent the remainder of the day in looking
ahead, interesting myself in what was in the distance
rather than in things near by or behind.
In the afternoon of that day, we reached Annap-
olis, the capital of the State. We stopped but a
few moments, so that I had no time to go on shore.
It was the first large town that I had ever seen, and
though it would look small compared with some of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: despoiled boards, and its descendant, the angry girl with her
hand on an open box-lid, made a sort of couple in the loneliness:
she on the wall sweet and serene, she by the box sweet and
stormy. The picture was her final treasure waiting to be packed
for the journey. In whatever room she had called her own since
childhood, there it had also lived and looked at her, not quite
familiar, not quite smiling, but in its prim colonial hues
delicate as some pressed flower. Its pale oval, of color blue and
rose and flaxen, in a battered, pretty gold frame, unconquerably
pervaded any surroundings with a something like last year's
lavender. Till yesterday a Crow Indian war-bonnet had hung next
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "I had no fear for myself; it never occurred to me to think of
taking a weapon with me. How my revolver - and it is undoubtedly
my revolver, for there was a peculiar break in the silver
ornamentation on the handle which is easily recognisable - how this
revolver of mine got into his room, is more than I can say. Until
the Police Commissioner showed it to me two or three days ago, I
had no idea that it was not in the box in my study where it is
ordinarily kept." Graumann paused again and looked about him as
if searching for something. He rose and poured himself out a glass
of water. "Let me put some of this in it," said Muller. "It will
do you good." From a flask in his pocket he poured a few drops of
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