| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: did not seem to want the gold very much. They
would find some rich spot, and then turn their backs
on it; pick up perhaps a little--enough for a
spree--and then be off again, looking for more.
They never stopped long where there were houses;
they had no wife, no chick, no home, never a chum.
You couldn't be friends with a Gambucino; they
were too restless--here to-day, and gone, God
knows where, to-morrow. They told no one of
their finds, and there has never been a Gambucino
well off. It was not for the gold they cared; it was
To-morrow |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: On the 30th of April, the two sportsmen were in the depth of the Far
West, when the reporter, preceding Herbert a few paces, arrived in a sort
of clearing, into which the trees more sparsely scattered had permitted a
few rays to penetrate. Gideon Spilett was at first surprised at the odor
which exhaled from certain plants with straight stalks, round and branchy,
bearing grape-like clusters of flowers and very small berries. The reporter
broke off one or two of these stalks and returned to the lad, to whom he
said,--
"What can this be, Herbert?"
"Well, Mr. Spilett," said Herbert, "this is a treasure which will secure
you Pencroft's gratitude forever."
The Mysterious Island |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: whitely.
"Mebbe, but some day y'u'll crawl on your knees to beg my pardon
for having told me so."
"There is your overweening vanity again," she commented.
"I'm going to break y'u, my beauty, so that y'u'll come running
when I snap my fingers."
"We'll see."
"And in the meantime I'll go hang your lover." He bowed
ironically, swung on his jingling heel, and strode out of the
room.
She stood there listening to his dying footfalls, then covered
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