| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: "Lampreys are not good for you," replied the physician.
That title, recently substituted for the former term of "myrrh-
master," is still applied to the faculty in England. The name was at
this period given to doctors everywhere.
"Then what may I eat?" asked the king, humbly.
"Salt mackerel. Otherwise, you have so much bile in motion that you
may die on All-Souls' Day."
"To-day!" cried the king in terror.
"Compose yourself, sire," replied Coyctier. "I am here. Try not to
fret your mind; find some way to amuse yourself."
"Ah!" said the king, "my daughter Marie used to succeed in that
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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: "No, I really won't," she persisted. "Vaudeville's too--too wearing on the
nerves, my nerves, at any rate."
Whereat he looked puzzled and doubtful, and forbore to press the point
further.
But on Monday morning, when she came to his office to get her pay for the two
turns, it was he who puzzled her.
"You surely must have mistaken me," he lied glibly. "I remember saying
something about paying your car fare. We always do this, you know, but we
never, never pay amateurs. That would take the life and sparkle out of the
whole thing. No, Charley Welsh was stringing you. He gets paid nothing for his
turns. No amateur gets paid. The idea is ridiculous. However, here's fifty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "Unt dey can't shoot him, or hit him mit a club over der head
alongside, or do nodings more mit him?"
"No, suh."
"Goot! You hear vot Kentucky speaks, all you noddleheads? Now I
talk mit Bill. You know der piziness, Bill, und you hang me up
brown, eh? Vot you say?"
"'Betcher life, an', Jan, if yeh don't give no more trouble ye'll
be almighty proud of the job. I'm a connesoor."
"You haf der great head, Bill, und know somedings or two. Und you
know two und one makes tree--ain't it?"
Bill nodded.
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