| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: reason for taking him first. We can hustle that schooner up all
evening; but when the consulate's shut, it's shut."
At the consulate, we learned that Captain Trent had alighted
(such is I believe the classic phrase) at the What Cheer House.
To that large and unaristocratic hostelry we drove, and
addressed ourselves to a large clerk, who was chewing a
toothpick and looking straight before him.
"Captain Jacob Trent?"
"Gone," said the clerk.
"Where has he gone?" asked Pinkerton.
"Cain't say," said the clerk.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: reached the age of manhood, and would have nothing to say to the
paint: "To-morrow was soon enough," said he; and when the morrow
came he would still put it off. She might have continued to do
until his death; only, he had a friend of about his own age and
much of his own manners; and this youth, taking a walk in the
public street, with not one fleck of paint upon his body, was
suddenly run down by a water-cart and cut off in the heyday of his
nakedness. This shook the other to the soul; so that I never
beheld a man more earnest to be painted; and on the very same
evening, in the presence of all his family, to appropriate music,
and himself weeping aloud, he received three complete coats and a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: awakened on the instant the whole circle of sleeping
Fire-Men.
Once a lion and a lioness stood beneath our tree and
gazed out with bristling hair and blinking eyes. The
lion licked his chops and was nervous with eagerness,
as if he wanted to go forward and make a meal. But the
lioness was more cautious. It was she that discovered
us, and the pair stood and looked up at us, silently,
with twitching, scenting nostrils. Then they growled,
looked once again at the fire, and turned away into the
forest.
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