| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: I know by sight--if he should have the bad taste to be at home.'
'If he be at home?' faltered the artist. 'That would be the end
of all.'
'Won't matter a d--,' returned Michael airily. 'Let me see your
clothes, and I'll make a new man of you in a jiffy.'
In the bedroom, to which he was at once conducted, Michael
examined Pitman's poor and scanty wardrobe with a humorous eye,
picked out a short jacket of black alpaca, and presently added to
that a pair of summer trousers which somehow took his fancy as
incongruous. Then, with the garments in his hand, he scrutinized
the artist closely.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: came to a pool of water. And at the bottom of the pool the piece
of yellow gold was lying.
'How shall I thank thee?' said the Star-Child, 'for lo! this is the
second time that you have succoured me.'
'Nay, but thou hadst pity on me first,' said the Hare, and it ran
away swiftly.
And the Star-Child took the piece of yellow gold, and put it in his
wallet, and hurried to the city. But the leper saw him coming, and
ran to meet him, and knelt down and cried, 'Give me a piece of
money or I shall die of hunger.'
And the Star-Child said to him, 'I have in my wallet but one piece
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: the Zambesi, the AEgean, and across the world to Flanders' fields. Between
March 21st and April 17th, 1918, the Huns in their drive used 127
divisions, and of these 102 were concentrated against the British. That
was in Flanders. Britain, at the same time she was fighting in Flanders,
had also at various times shared in the fighting in Russia, Kiaochau, New
Guinea, Samoa, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, the Sudan, Cameroons,
Togoland, East Africa, South West Africa, Saloniki, Aden, Persia, and
the northwest frontier of India. Britain cleared twelve hundred thousand
square miles of the enemy in German colonies. While fighting in
Mesopotamia, her soldiers were reconstructing at the same time. They
reclaimed and cultivated more than 1100 square miles of land there, which
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