| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Like usury applying wet to wet,
Or monarchs' hands, that lets not bounty fall
Where want cries 'some,' but where excess begs all.
Of folded schedules had she many a one,
Which she perus'd, sigh'd, tore, and gave the flood;
Crack'd many a ring of posied gold and bone,
Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;
Found yet mo letters sadly penn'd in blood,
With sleided silk feat and affectedly
Enswath'd, and seal'd to curious secrecy.
These often bath'd she in her fluxive eyes,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: she said, "to try and arrange this matter so as to make
it agreeable to you. It can never be agreeable to you.
It is a disappointment, and disappointments are unpleasant.
I thought it over carefully and tried to arrange it better;
but I only gave myself a headache and lost my sleep.
Say what we will, you will think yourself ill-treated,
and you will publish your wrongs among your friends.
But we are not afraid of that. Besides, your friends are not
our friends, and it will not matter. Think of us as you please.
I only beg you not to be violent. I have never in my life
been present at a violent scene of any kind, and at my age I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: success recorded from time to time was so disappointing as to
convey the impression, except in a limited circle, that the
problem was impossible of solution. In the meantime wondrous
changes had taken place in the methods of transportation by land
and sea. The steam and electric railway, steam propulsion of
vessels, and mechanical movement along the highroads had been
evolved and advanced to a high standard of perfection, to the
untold advantage of the community. Consequently it was argued,
if only a system of travel along the aerial highways could be
established, then all other methods of mechanical transportation
would be rendered, if not entirely obsolete, at least antiquated.
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