| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: Daily experience might have taught my wife that constantly
talking of our expenses does not reduce them, but my wife refuses
to learn by experience, and regularly every morning discusses our
officer son, and tells me that bread, thank God, is cheaper,
while sugar is a halfpenny dearer -- with a tone and an air as
though she were communicating interesting news.
I listen, mechanically assent, and probably because I have had a
bad night, strange and inappropriate thoughts intrude themselves
upon me. I gaze at my wife and wonder like a child. I ask myself
in perplexity, is it possible that this old, very stout, ungainly
woman, with her dull expression of petty anxiety and alarm about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded.
That it cried how true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.
Whereupon it made this threne
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: into the circuit chemical actions over and above those due to the
current. Faraday subjected these secondary actions to an exhaustive
examination. Instructed by his experiments, and rendered competent
by them to distinguish between primary and secondary results, he
proceeds to establish the doctrine of 'Definite Electro-chemical
Decomposition.'
Into the same circuit he introduced his voltameter, which consisted
of a graduated tube filled with acidulated water and provided with
platinum plates for the decomposition of the water, and also a cell
containing chloride of tin. Experiments already referred to had
taught him that this substance, though an insulator when solid, is a
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