| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: view, the greatest actor he had seen. We were all indeed moved and
bettered by the visit of that wonderful man. - 'I declare I feel as
if I could pray!' cried one of us, on the return from HAMLET. -
'That is prayer,' said Fleeming. W. B. Hole and I, in a fine
enthusiasm of gratitude, determined to draw up an address to
Salvini, did so, and carried it to Fleeming; and I shall never
forget with what coldness he heard and deleted the eloquence of our
draft, nor with what spirit (our vanities once properly mortified)
he threw himself into the business of collecting signatures. It
was his part, on the ground of his Italian, to see and arrange with
the actor; it was mine to write in the ACADEMY a notice of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: other as he reconstructed the case.
"Later!" smiled Barton Ward. "Later!" murmured Watson Bard.
With their hands clasped over their stomachs, they, too, benignly
twirled their thumbs.
"Tonight," pursued Barnstable, "having finally got all the
information I wished from Dopey Eddie and Izzy the Cat with
regard to Logan Black, I tossed them the key to their irons and
told them to unlock themselves and clear out. It was just before
the storm began, and they were sitting on the bank of the canal
at the time. I allowed them to sit there in the evenings and get
the fresh air.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: them. That was what he went off for, to London and other places -
to look out; and this vigilance was the theory of life, as well as
the real occupation, of the whole family. They all looked out, for
they were very frank on the subject of its being necessary. They
desired it to be understood that they were earnest people, and also
that their fortune, though quite adequate for earnest people,
required the most careful administration. Mr. Moreen, as the
parent bird, sought sustenance for the nest. Ulick invoked support
mainly at the club, where Pemberton guessed that it was usually
served on green cloth. The girls used to do up their hair and
their frocks themselves, and our young man felt appealed to to be
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