| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: I could not pry deeper into Alison West's affairs. If she had got
into the hands of adventurers, as Sullivan and his sister appeared
to have been, she was safely away from them again. But something of
the situation in the car Ontario was forming itself in my mind: the
incident at the farmhouse lacked only motive to be complete. Was
Sullivan, after all, a rascal or a criminal? Was the murderer
Sullivan or Mrs. Conway? The lady or the tiger again.
Jennie was speaking.
"I hope Miss West was not hurt?" she asked. "We liked her, all of
us. She was not like Mrs. Curtis."
I wanted to say that she was not like anybody in the world. Instead
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Resistless thro' the war Camilla rode,
In danger unappall'd, and pleas'd with blood.
One side was bare for her exerted breast;
One shoulder with her painted quiver press'd.
Now from afar her fatal jav'lins play;
Now with her ax's edge she hews her way:
Diana's arms upon her shoulder sound;
And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground,
From her bent bow she sends a backward wound.
Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side,
Larina, Tulla, fierce Tarpeia, ride:
Aeneid |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: have learned from thy lips the vanity thereof, and the folly of
those who worship idols; and I yearn to become the servant of the
true God, if haply he will not refuse me, that am unworthy by
reason of my sins, and I trust that he will forgive me
everything, because he is a lover of men, and compassionate, as
thou tellest me, and will count me worthy to become his servant.
So I am ready anon to receive baptism, and to observe all thy
sayings. But what must I do after baptism? And is this alone
sufficient for salvation, to believe and be baptized, or must one
add other services thereto?"
Barlaam answered him, "Hear what thou must do after baptism.
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