| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: not as if she wished to recede, but only to be conscientious.
"Naturally. But if you could only find out!" I groaned, quivering again.
"I thought you said you would wait."
"Oh, you mean wait even for that?"
"For what then?"
"Oh, nothing," I replied, rather foolishly, being ashamed
to tell her what had been implied in my submission to delay--
the idea that she would do more than merely find out.
I know not whether she guessed this; at all events she appeared
to become aware of the necessity for being a little more rigid.
"I didn't promise to deceive, did I? I don't think I did."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: overpowering, the day was cloudless and terrifically hot; but where
the blue sun had sunk, a sombre shadow seemed to overhang the world.
Maskull had a feeling of disintegration - just as if two chemically
distinct forces were simultaneously acting upon the cells of his
body. Since the afterglow of Alppain affected him like this, he
thought it more than likely that he would never be able to face that
sun itself, and go on living. Still, some modification might happen
to him that would make it possible.
The sea tempted him. He made up his mind to bathe, and at once
walked toward the shore. The instant he stepped outside the shadow
line of the forest trees, the blinding rays of the sun beat down on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: respect. Perhaps he felt that his remorse had purified him, and
believed that he had blotted out his fault by his anguish and his
shame. He now walked with a firm step, and since the previous evening
he had washed away the blood with which he was, involuntarily,
stained.
"My hands must have dabbled in it while I slept, for I am always a
restless sleeper," he had said to me in tones of horrible despair.
I learned that he was on his way to appear before the council of war.
The division was to march on the following morning, and the
commanding-officer did not wish to leave Andernach without inquiry
into the crime on the spot where it had been committed. I remained in
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