| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: "You amuse Mr. Newman."
"Perhaps we shall all come to that!" Valentin exclaimed.
"You must see my other son," said Madame de Bellegarde.
"He is much better than this one. But he will not amuse you."
"I don't know--I don't know!" murmured Valentin, reflectively.
"But we shall very soon see. Here comes Monsieur mon frere."
The door had just opened to give ingress to a gentleman who stepped forward
and whose face Newman remembered. He had been the author of our hero's
discomfiture the first time he tried to present himself to Madame de Cintre.
Valentin de Bellegarde went to meet his brother, looked at him a moment,
and then, taking him by the arm, led him up to Newman.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: To whom the Angel with contracted brow.
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine; and be not diffident
Of Wisdom; she deserts thee not, if thou
Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,
By attributing overmuch to things
Less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
For, what admirest thou, what transports thee so,
An outside? fair, no doubt, and worthy well
Thy cherishing, thy honouring, and thy love;
Not thy subjection: Weigh with her thyself;
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: road at double time came a company of militia in khaki. He was
mad with baffled fury, but he made good his retreat at once and
disappeared promptly into the nearest dark alley.
The mob scattered by universal impulse; disintegrated so promptly
that within five minutes the soldiers held the ground alone, save
for the officials of the prison and Denver's little band.
A boyish lieutenant lately out of the Point, and just come in to
a lieutenancy in the militia, was in command. "In time?" he asked
anxiously, for this was his first independent expedition.
"Y'u bet," chuckled Denver. "We're right glad to see you, and
I'll bet those boys in the cage ain't regretting your arrival
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