| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: malicious grin.
'Well it does not much matter,' I replied grandly. 'I
shall be at Auch by noon.'
'That is as may be,' he answered with another grin.
I did not understand him, but I had something else to
think about, and I opened the door and stepped out,
intending to go to the stable. Then in a second I
comprehended. The cold air laden with woodland moisture
met me and went to my bones; but it was not that which
made me shiver. Outside the door, in the road, sitting
on horseback in silence, were two men. One was Clon.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then upon your own showing the rhapsode, and the art of the
rhapsode, will not know everything?
ION: I should exclude certain things, Socrates.
SOCRATES: You mean to say that you would exclude pretty much the subjects
of the other arts. As he does not know all of them, which of them will he
know?
ION: He will know what a man and what a woman ought to say, and what a
freeman and what a slave ought to say, and what a ruler and what a subject.
SOCRATES: Do you mean that a rhapsode will know better than the pilot what
the ruler of a sea-tossed vessel ought to say?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: attitude."
The men were already too far gone to pay much heed.
"This is a very painful sight, Mr. Spoker," said the Captain.
"And yet to the philosophic eye, or whatever it is," replied the
first lieutenant, "they may be said to have been getting drunk
since they came aboard."
"I do not know if you always follow my thought, Mr. Spoker,"
returned the Captain gently. "But let us proceed."
In the powder magazine they found an old salt smoking his pipe.
"Good God," cried the Captain, "what are you about?"
"Well, sir," said the old salt, apologetically, "they told me as
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