| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: writing materials.
"I was sitting up to let in my sister, who had gone to a dance,"
she began, "and fearing I would fall asleep I went down into the
library, intending to sit in one of the window recesses and watch
for her arrival. As I entered the library I saw a figure steal
across the room and disappear inside a closet. I was very
frightened, but had sense enough left to cross softly to the
closet and lock the door." She paused in her rapid recital and
drew a long breath, then continued more slowly:
"I hurried to the window and across the street I saw a policeman
standing under a lamp-post. It took but a minute to call him. The
The Red Seal |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: the population has been returned too large. How many men
are there to a square thousand miles in the country?
Hardly one. Does not America offer any inducement for men
to settle here? The American has dwindled into an Odd
Fellow--one who may be known by the development of his organ
of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and
cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern, on
coming into the world, is to see that the almshouses are in
good repair; and, before yet he has lawfully donned the
virile garb, to collect a fund to the support of the widows
and orphans that may be; who, in short, ventures to live
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ism you have shown in your endurance of all that you have
passed through. There can be no bravery where there is no
fear. A child might walk into a lion's den, but it would take
a very brave man to go to its rescue."
"Thank you," she said, "but I am not brave at all, and now
I am very much ashamed of my thoughtlessness for your own
feelings. I will try and take a new grip upon myself and we
will both hope for the best. I will help you all I can if you
will tell me what I may do."
"The first thing," he replied, "is to find out just how serious
our damage is, and then to see what we can do in the way of
Tarzan the Untamed |
