| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: have it, and God. And the divine thing in marriage, the thing that
is most like the love of God, is, even then, not the relationship of
the man and woman as man and woman but the comradeship and trust and
mutual help and pity that joins them. No doubt that from the mutual
necessities of bodily love and the common adventure, the necessary
honesties and helps of a joint life, there springs the stoutest,
nearest, most enduring and best of human companionship; perhaps only
upon that root can the best of mortal comradeship be got; but it
does not follow that the mere ordinary coming together and pairing
off of men and women is in itself divine or sacramental or anything
of the sort. Being in love is a condition that may have its moments
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: found the stone upon which the prince had set the black cross. He
pressed his hand upon it, and it opened to him like a door. They
descended the steps, and went through the passageway, until they
came out upon the sea-shore. The black dogs came leaping towards
them; but this time it was to fawn upon them, and to lick their
hands and faces.
The prince turned the great stone mill till the brazen boat came
flying towards the shore. They entered it, and so crossed the
water and came to the other side. They did not tarry in the
garden, but went straight to the snow-white palace and to the
great vaulted chamber where was the statue. "Yes," said the old
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: ripened, and once when he lay ill of fever at his lodgings in Bow
Street, Covent Garden, the merry monarch visited him, cheered him
with words of kindness, and promised he would send him to
Montpelier when he was well enough to travel. For this good
purpose Charles sent him five hundred pounds, and Wycherley spent
the winter of 1679 abroad.
Previous to this date he had written, besides his first comedy,
three others which had been received with great favour by the
town, viz., "The Gentleman Dancing Master," "The Country Wife,"
and "The Plain Dealer." Soon after his return to England the
crisis of his life arrived, and he married. His introduction to
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