| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: "In that case, O REVOOR," says I.
I hopped onto the carpet and held my breath and shut my eyes and
wished I was in the booking-office of my own section. The very
next instant a voice I knew sung out in a business kind of a way -
"A harp and a hymn-book, pair of wings and a halo, size 13, for
Cap'n Eli Stormfield, of San Francisco! - make him out a clean bill
of health, and let him in."
I opened my eyes. Sure enough, it was a Pi Ute Injun I used to
know in Tulare County; mighty good fellow - I remembered being at
his funeral, which consisted of him being burnt and the other
Injuns gauming their faces with his ashes and howling like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: offering of three fat mice as a present
for Old Brown, and put them down
upon his door-step.
Then Twinkleberry and the other
little squirrels each made a low bow,
and said politely--
"Old Mr. Brown, will you
favour us with permission to
gather nuts upon your island?"
But Nutkin was excessively
impertinent in his manners. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: idling ashore will do (it was in the open space before the Harbour
Office of a great Eastern port), a man came towards us from the
"front" of business houses, aiming obliquely at the landing steps.
He attracted my attention because in the movement of figures in
white drill suits on the pavement from which he stepped, his
costume, the usual tunic and trousers, being made of light grey
flannel, made him noticeable.
I had time to observe him. He was stout, but he was not grotesque.
His face was round and smooth, his complexion very fair. On his
nearer approach I saw a little moustache made all the fairer by a
good many white hairs. And he had, for a stout man, quite a good
Within the Tides |
