| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: brought me one single nibble--and I gave up the sad sport for a while.
The beautiful weather took me out of doors over the land, and also over
the water, for I am a great lover of sailing; and I found a little
cat-boat and a little negro, both of which suited me very well. I spent
many delightful hours in their company among the deeps and shallows of
these fair Southern waters.
And indoors, also, I made most agreeable use of my time, in spite of one
disappointment when, on the day following my visit to the ladies, I re-
turned full of expectancy to lunch at the Woman's exchange, the girl
behind the counter was not there. I found in her stead, it is true, a
most polite lady, who provided me with chocolate and sandwiches that were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: contract, a trust, was a thing of the heart, and God its supreme
judge. After stating the miseries of her position to Dona Lagounia,
she confided her daughter and her daughter's fortune to the fine old
Spanish honor, pure and spotless, which filled the precincts of that
ancient house. Dona Lagounia had no child, and she was only too happy
to obtain one to nurture. The mother then parted from her Juana,
convinced that the child's future was safe, and certain of having
found her a mother, a mother who would bring her up as a Mancini, and
not as a Marana.
Leaving her child in the simple modest house of the merchant where the
burgher virtues reigned, where religion and sacred sentiments and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: could plainly see, was white. Who she was, and what she was doing
there, were thoughts that drifted vaguely through his
consciousness. He was too sick to be vitally interested, and,
besides, he had a half feeling that it was all a dream; but he
noted that the men were resting on their sweeps, while the woman
and the steersman were intently watching the run of seas behind
them.
"Good boatmen," was Sheldon's verdict, as he saw the boat leap
forward on the face of a huge breaker, the sweeps plying swiftly to
keep her on that front of the moving mountain of water that raced
madly for the shore. It was well done. Part full of water, the
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