| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: there ensued a pause, which he presently broke by saying to Miss
Lombard: "And you still have the picture?"
She raised her eyes and looked at him. "Should you like to see
it?" she asked.
On his assenting, she rose, and extracting the same key from the
same secret drawer, unlocked the door beneath the tapestry. They
walked down the passage in silence, and she stood aside with a
grave gesture, making Wyant pass before her into the room. Then
she crossed over and drew the curtain back from the picture.
The light of the early afternoon poured full on it: its surface
appeared to ripple and heave with a fluid splendor. The colors
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: chief of all the tribe."
And, when she turned over the next five hundred years, it was true.
For this hairy chief had had hairy children, and they hairier
children still; and every one wished to marry hairy husbands, and
have hairy children too; for the climate was growing so damp that
none but the hairy ones could live: all the rest coughed and
sneezed, and had sore throats, and went into consumptions, before
they could grow up to be men and women.
Then the fairy turned over the next five hundred years. And they
were fewer still.
"Why, there is one on the ground picking up roots," said Ellie,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: out dashed the cavalry with the chosen band of the Phliasians and gave
battle, not suffering the enemy to penetrate into the plain. The best
part of the day was spent in taking long shots at one another on that
field; Euphron pushing his attack down to the point where cavalry
could operate, the citizens retaliating as far as the Heraion.
Presently the time to withdraw had come, and the enemy began to
retire, following the circle of the Trikaranon; the short cut to reach
the Pellenians being barred by the ravine which runs in front of the
walls. The Phliasians escorted their retreating foes a little way up
the steep, and then turning off dashed along the road beside the
walls, making for the Pellenians and those with them; whereupon the
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