| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "Wonder if I got him? Seems to me I couldn't have missed clean,"
thought Bannister.
Silence as before, vast and unbroken.
A scramble of running feet tearing a path through the brush, a
crouching body showing darkly for an eyeflash, and then the
pounding of a horse's retreating feet.
Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space,
and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.
"Missed!" he muttered, and at once gave a sharp whistle that
brought his pony to him on the trot. He vaulted to the saddle and
gave chase. It was rough going, but nothing in reason can stop a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: drunkenness, could send some sober thoughts through the
spendthrift's soul. He examined his life, and became thoughtful,
like a man involved in a lawsuit on his way to the Court.
Bartolommeo Belvidero, Don Juan's father, was an old man of
ninety, who had devoted the greatest part of his life to business
pursuits. He had acquired vast wealth in many a journey to
magical Eastern lands, and knowledge, so it was said, more
valuable than the gold and diamonds, which had almost ceased to
have any value for him.
"I would give more to have a tooth in my head than for a ruby,"
he would say at times with a smile. The indulgent father loved to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: public, they filled the whole space. Historical, high-art, genre
paintings, easel pictures, landscapes, flowers, animals, and water-
colors,--these eight specialties could surely not offer more than
twenty pictures in one year worthy of the eyes of the public, which,
indeed, cannot give its attention to a greater number of such works.
The more the number of artists increases, the more careful and
exacting the jury of admission ought to be.
The true character of the Salon was lost as soon as it spread along
the galleries. The Salon should have remained within fixed limits of
inflexible proportions, where each distinct specialty could show its
masterpieces only. An experience of ten years has shown the excellence
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