| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: is the thing we have to think about. I do not know why it
should be so, but I am compelled by something in my nature to
want to serve this idea of a new age for mankind. I want it
as my culminating want. I want a world in order, a
disciplined mankind going on to greater things. Don't you?"
"Now you tell me of it," she said with a smile, "I do."
"But before--?"
"No. You've made it clear. It wasn't clear before."
"I've been talking of this sort of thing with my friend Dr.
Martineau. And I've been thinking as well as talking. That
perhaps is why I'm so clear and positive."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: Miss Allan looked at her watch.
"Half-past one," she stated. "And I have to despatch Alexander
Pope to-morrow."
"Pope!" snorted Mr. Elliot. "Who reads Pope, I should like to know?
And as for reading about him--No, no, Miss Allan; be persuaded you
will benefit the world much more by dancing than by writing."
It was one of Mr. Elliot's affectations that nothing in the world
could compare with the delights of dancing--nothing in the world
was so tedious as literature. Thus he sought pathetically enough
to ingratiate himself with the young, and to prove to them beyond
a doubt that though married to a ninny of a wife, and rather pale
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: our young friend, if he accepts the marriage, will be called upon to
show a gratuitous devotion. Lydie is very agreeable in person; she has
talents, a charming disposition, and she can bring to bear, in her
husband's interest, a strong influence in public life. She has,
moreover, a pretty fortune, consisting of what her mother left her,
and of my entire property, which, having no heirs myself, I intend to
secure to her in the marriage contract. Besides all this, she has this
very night acquired a not inconsiderable legacy."
"What!" exclaimed Cerizet, "do you mean that old Toupillier--"
"By a will in his own handwriting, which I have here, that old pauper
constitutes her his sole legatee. You see, therefore, that I showed
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