| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: hour! But I drew, examined the pistols, of which I found lots with
caps, powder, and ball, while sometimes murderous intentions of
killing a dozen insurgents and dying violently overpowered by
numbers. . . . .' We may drop this sentence here: under the
conduct of its boyish writer, it was to reach no legitimate end.
Four days of such a discipline had cured the family of Paris; the
same year Fleeming was to write, in answer apparently to a question
of Frank Scott's, 'I could find no national game in France but
revolutions'; and the witticism was justified in their experience.
On the first possible day, they applied for passports, and were
advised to take the road to Geneva. It appears it was scarce safe
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: own revolts and defiances, and she longed to have him
tell her more.
"I don't know much about them. Have they always been
there?"
"Nobody seems to know exactly how long. Down at
Creston they told me that the first colonists are
supposed to have been men who worked on the railway
that was built forty or fifty years ago between
Springfield and Nettleton. Some of them took to drink,
or got into trouble with the police, and went off--
disappeared into the woods. A year or two later there
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: should like to see her before I go."
"Go in and see Magnus," said Mrs. Derrick. "I will tell her you
are here."
Presley stepped across the stone-paved hallway with the glass
roof, and after knocking three times at the office door pushed it
open and entered.
Magnus sat in the chair before the desk and did not look up as
Presley entered. He had the appearance of a man nearer eighty
than sixty. All the old-time erectness was broken and bent. It
was as though the muscles that once had held the back rigid, the
chin high, had softened and stretched. A certain fatness, the
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