| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: evidently arrived on the 6:30 train at the West Station - I have
reason to believe that he does not live here, - and then took the
street car to this corner. The last ticket is marked for yesterday.
In the car he probably made his plans to hire a cab. So you had
better stay along the line of the car tracks. You will find me in
room seven, Police Headquarters, at noon to-day. The authorities
have already taken up the case. You may have something to tell us
then. Good luck to you."
Muller hurried on, after he had taken a quick breakfast in a little
caf‚. He went at once to headquarters, made his report there and
then drove to Fellner's house. The latter was awaiting him with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: All crooked swings the ham.
'Alas,' he cries and shakes his head,
'I see by every sign,
There soon all be the deuce to pay,
With this estate of mine.'
Poem: III - THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES
The first pine to the second said:
'My leaves are black, my branches red;
I stand upon this moor of mine,
A hoar, unconquerable pine.'
The second sniffed and answered: 'Pooh!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: On the low hills of Paphos, and the Faun
Pipes in the noonday, and the nightingale sings on till dawn.
Nor failed they to obey her hest, and ere
The morning bee had stung the daffodil
With tiny fretful spear, or from its lair
The waking stag had leapt across the rill
And roused the ouzel, or the lizard crept
Athwart the sunny rock, beneath the grass their bodies slept.
And when day brake, within that silver shrine
Fed by the flames of cressets tremulous,
Queen Venus knelt and prayed to Proserpine
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