| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: their number, gender, their respective ages--all about them.
Be sure you observe everything; be ready to describe
to me the locality, the accessories--how shall I say it?--
the mise en scene. Then, at my own time, at my own hour,
under circumstances of my own choosing, I will go to them.
I will present myself--I will appear before them!" said the Baroness,
this time phrasing her idea with a certain frankness.
"And what message am I to take to them?" asked Felix, who had a lively
faith in the justness of his sister's arrangements.
She looked at him a moment--at his expression of agreeable veracity;
and, with that justness that he admired, she replied, "Say what you please.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: will and do its worst, I heed it not. And yet take this for a rule, that I
would willingly fish, standing on the lee-shore: and you are to take
notice, that the fish lies or swims nearer the bottom, and in deeper
water, in winter than in summer; and also nearer the bottom in any cold
day, and then gets nearest the lee-side of the water.
But I promised to tell you more of the Fly-fishing for a Trout; which I
may have time enough to do, for you see it rains May butter. First for a
Mayfly: you may make his body with greenish-coloured crewel, or
willowish colour; darkening it in most places with waxed silk; or ribbed
with black hair; or, some of them, ribbed with silver thread; and such
wings, for the colour, as you see the fly to have at that season, nay, at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: tolerable last acts to their plays, so conventionally do their
conclusions follow from their premises. Because I have thrown
this logic ruthlessly overboard, I am accused of ignoring, not
stage logic, but, of all things, human feeling. People with
completely theatrified imaginations tell me that no girl would
treat her mother as Vivie Warren does, meaning that no stage
heroine would in a popular sentimental play. They say this just
as they might say that no two straight lines would enclose a
space. They do not see how completely inverted their vision has
become even when I throw its preposterousness in their faces, as
I repeatedly do in this very play. Praed, the sentimental artist
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