| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: parting malevolent glance.
At the corner of Polk Street, between the flat and the car
conductors' coffee-joint, was Frenna's. It was a corner
grocery; advertisements for cheap butter and eggs, painted
in green marking-ink upon wrapping paper, stood about on the
sidewalk outside. The doorway was decorated with a huge
Milwaukee beer sign. Back of the store proper was a bar
where white sand covered the floor. A few tables and chairs
were scattered here and there. The walls were hung with
gorgeously-colored tobacco advertisements and colored
lithographs of trotting horses. On the wall behind the bar
McTeague |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Then he entered Bland's lane.
While yet some distance from the cabin he heard loud, angry
voices of man and woman. Bland and Kate still quarreling! He
took a quick survey of the surroundings. There was now not even
a Mexican in sight. Then he hurried a little. Halfway down the
lane he turned his head to peer through the cottonwoods. This
time he saw Euchre coming with the horses. There was no
indication that the old outlaw might lose his nerve at the end.
Duane had feared this.
Duane now changed his walk to a leisurely saunter. He reached
the porch and then distinguished what was said inside the
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: frequently laughed away and that still persists in raising its
grisly head--namely, the doctrine of Malthus. While man's
increasing efficiency of food-production, combined with
colonisation of whole virgin continents, has for generations given
the apparent lie to Malthus' mathematical statement of the Law of
Population, nevertheless the essential significance of his
doctrine remains and cannot be challenged. Population DOES press
against subsistence. And no matter how rapidly subsistence
increases, population is certain to catch up with it.
When man was in the hunting stage of development, wide areas were
necessary for the maintenance of scant populations. With the
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