| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: Parisian society; she looked at that society with the curiosity of a
girl, but she learned from it only that which her sorrow and her
wounded pride revealed to her.
Juana had the tact of a virgin heart which receives impressions in
advance of the event, after the manner of what are called
"sensitives." The solitary young girl, so suddenly become a woman and
a wife, saw plainly that were she to attempt to compel society to
respect her husband, it must be after the manner of Spanish beggars,
carbine in hand. Besides, the multiplicity of the precautions she
would have to take, would they meet the necessity? Suddenly she
divined society as, once before, she had divined life, and she saw
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: The French aeronautical section of the military department
devoted considerable study to this subject, but found the problem
almost insurmount able. Monsieur Loiseau met with the greatest
measure of success, and his system is being practised in the
present campaign. This principle is essentially adapted to
tractor aeroplanes. Forward of the pilot a special position is
reserved for the gunner. A special mounting is provided towards
the prow, and upon the upper face of the body of the machine.
The gun mounting is disposed in such a manner that it is able to
command a wide arc of fire in the vertical plane over the nose of
the machine and more particularly in the downward direction.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: He had been compelled to abandon his basket of food, which
became a perilous incumbrance on the glacier, and had now no means
of refreshing himself but by breaking off and eating some of the
pieces of ice. This, however, relieved his thirst; an hour's repose
recruited his hardy frame, and with the indomitable spirit of
avarice he resumed his laborious journey.
His way now lay straight up a ridge of bare red rocks, without
a blade of grass to ease the foot or a projecting angle to afford an
inch of shade from the south sun. It was past noon and the rays
beat intensely upon the steep path, while the whole atmosphere was
motionless and penetrated with heat. Intense thirst was soon added
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