| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: When he returned, rather more quickly, he looked alarmed and his
tone was very humble as he asked Muller to follow him.
When the detective entered Mrs. Bernauer's room the housekeeper
rose slowly from the large armchair in front of her table. She was
very pale and her eyes were full of terror. She made no move to
speak, so Muller began the conversation. He put down his hat,
brought up a chair and placed it near the window at which the
housekeeper had been sitting. Then he sat down and motioned to
her to do the same.
"You are a faithful servant, all too faithful," he began. "But
you are faithful only to your master. You have no devotion for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: Seraphitus inclined his head with a gesture that was neither coldness
nor indifference, and yet, despite the grace which made the movement
almost tender, it none the less bespoke a certain negation, which in a
woman would have seemed an exquisite coquetry. Seraphitus clasped the
young girl in his arms. Minna accepted the caress as an answer to her
words, continuing to gaze at him. As he raised his head, and threw
back with impatient gesture the golden masses of his hair to free his
brow, he saw an expression of joy in the eyes of his companion.
"Yes, Minna," he said in a voice whose paternal accents were charming
from the lips of a being who was still adolescent, "Keep your eyes on
me; do not look below you."
Seraphita |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: their pupils not only obey without coercion, but adore. And if you
will tell me roughly how many Masons and Montessoris and Dalcrozes you
think you can pick up in Europe for salaries of from thirty shillings
to five pounds a week, I will estimate your chances of converting your
millions of little scholastic hells into little scholastic heavens.
If you are a distressed gentlewoman starting to make a living, you can
still open a little school; and you can easily buy a secondhand brass
plate inscribed PESTALOZZIAN INSTITUTE and nail it to your door,
though you have no more idea of who Pestalozzi was and what he
advocated or how he did it than the manager of a hotel which began as
a Hydropathic has of the water cure. Or you can buy a cheaper plate
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