| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: morning, to come down every day at the same hour, and she ordered
their employments with monastic regularity. Augustine, however, had
been gifted by chance with a spirit lofty enough to feel the emptiness
of such a life. Her blue eyes would sometimes be raised as if to
pierce the depths of that gloomy staircase and those damp store-rooms.
After sounding the profound cloistral silence, she seemed to be
listening to remote, inarticulate revelations of the life of passion,
which accounts feelings as of higher value than things. And at such
moments her cheek would flush, her idle hands would lay the muslin
sewing on the polished oak counter, and presently her mother would say
in a voice, of which even the softest tones were sour, "Augustine, my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: '"Hal," he cries, "I forgive thee. Forgive me too, Hal. Oh,
you English, you English! Did it gall thee, Hal, to see the rust on
the dirty sword? Tell me again, Hal, how the King grunted with
joy. Oh, let us tell the Master."
'So we reeled back to the chapel, arms round each other's
necks, and when we could speak - he thought we'd been fighting -
we told the Master. Yes, we told Torrigiano, and he laughed till
he rolled on the new cold pavement. Then he knocked our heads together.
'"Ah, you English!" he cried. "You are more than pigs. You
are English. Now you are well punished for your dirty fishes. Put
the draft in the fire, and never do so any more. You are a fool, Hal,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Yet, in protection of their tender ones,
Who hath not seen them, even with those wings
Which sometime they have us'd with fearful flight,
Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest,
Offering their own lives in their young's defence?
For shame, my liege! make them your precedent.
Were it not pity that this goodly boy
Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,
And long hereafter say unto his child,
'What my great-grandfather and grandsire got,
My careless father fondly gave away?'
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