| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: romantic disappointment at such a time, though as a matter of
fact it is always in a moment of crisis or of strained nerves
that we are most open to the insidious advances of romance. Also
that there was no one on earth, or beyond it, whom I ought more
greatly to have rejoiced to see. I had left Kaatje with Anscombe
and Heda; therefore Kaatje could tell me what had become of them.
And at this thought my heart sank--why was she here in this most
inappropriate meeting-place, alone? Feeling that these were
questions which must be answered at once, I prodded Kaatje in the
ribs with my toe until, after a good deal of prodding, she awoke,
sat up and yawned, revealing an excellent set of teeth in her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: "They call him the Man of the Vow."
You can imagine the movement with which our two heads turned at once
to our guide. He was a simple-hearted fellow; he understood at once
our mute inquiry, and here follows what he told us; I shall try to
give it as best I can in his own language, retaining his popular
parlance.
"Madame, folks from Croisic and those from Batz think this man is
guilty of something, and is doing a penance ordered by a famous rector
to whom he confessed his sin somewhere beyond Nantes. Others think
that Cambremer, that's his name, casts an evil fate on those who come
within his air, and so they always look which way the wind is before
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: doctor very polite, "if I were to inquire who is
to be tried, and before what court, and upon what
charge?"
There was a clearing of throats and a shuffling of
feet fur a minute. One old deaf feller, with a red
nose, who had his hand behind his ear and was
leaning forward so as not to miss a breath of what
any one said, ast his neighbour in a loud whisper,
"How?" Then an undersized little feller, who
wasn't a farmer by his clothes, got up and moved
toward the platform. He had a bulging-out fore-
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