| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: MOUSE.
I tell thee what, Rombelo, thou shalt go in at one
end of the wood and I at the other, and we will meet
both together at the midst.
ROMBELO.
Content! let's away to dinner.
[Exeunt.]
ACT V. SCENE I. The Forest.
[Enter Mucedorus solus.]
MUCEDORUS.
Unknown to any here within these woods
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: Nothing stands between us and the actual handwork of the great masters
of painting except distance; and modern photographic methods of
reproduction are in some cases quite and in many nearly as effective
in conveying the artist's message as a modern edition of Shakespear's
plays is in conveying the message that first existed in his
handwriting. The reproduction of great feats of musical execution is
already on the way: the phonograph, for all its wheezing and snarling
and braying, is steadily improving in its manners; and what with this
improvement on the one hand, and on the other that blessed selective
faculty which enables us to ignore a good deal of disagreeable noise
if there is a thread of music in the middle of it (few critics of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: impelled by a noble purpose, she had set her heart upon making
the attempt, and she did not like to disappoint her. It is true,
she keenly felt the degradation of such a life, and even feared
that Katy might be led astray while pursuing such an occupation;
but she gave a reluctant consent, trusting that one or two
experiments would disgust her with the business.
Katy clapped her hands with joy as her mother's scruples gave
way, and she found herself at liberty to carry her plan into
execution. It seemed to her as though she had crossed the
threshold of fortune and had actually entered the great temple.
She had an opportunity to accomplish a great work, and her
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