| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: throws her spells over him.
So the word of life fell upon a conscience newly awakened to the
truths of religion which the French Revolution and a soldier's career
had forced Castanier to neglect. The solemn words, "You will be happy
or miserable for all eternity!" made but the more terrible impression
upon him, because he had exhausted earth and shaken it like a barren
tree; because his desires could effect all things, so that it was
enough that any spot in earth or heaven should be forbidden him, and
he forthwith thought of nothing else. If it were allowable to compare
such great things with social follies, Castanier's position was not
unlike that of a banker who, finding that his all-powerful millions
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: cents. It will pay your sister's car fare also. And,"--very
suavely,--"speaking for the Loops, permit me to thank you for the kind and
successful contribution of your services."
That afternoon, true to her promise to Max Irwin, she placed her typewritten
copy into his hands. And while he ran over it, he nodded his head from time to
time, and maintained a running fire of commendatory remarks: "Good!--that's
it!--that's the stuff!--psychology's all right!--the very idea!--you've caught
it!--excellent!--missed it a bit here, but it'll go--that's vigorous!
--strong!--vivid!--pictures! pictures!--excellent!--most excellent!"
And when he had run down to the bottom of the last page, holding out his hand:
"My dear Miss Wyman, I congratulate you. I must say you have exceeded my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Of all the virtue I have preacht to her:
I'll say, she must forget her husband Salisbury,
If she remember to embrace the king;
I'll say, an oath may easily be broken,
But not so easily pardoned, being broken;
I'll say, it is true charity to love,
But not true love to be so charitable;
I'll say, his greatness may bear out the shame,
But not his kingdom can buy out the sin;
I'll say, it is my duty to persuade,
But not her honesty to give consent.
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