| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: find out for sure. Just you waltz in and talk to Papa."
"Thank you," I said, "I'd rather stay right out here on the
verandah. Your house is so close."
"I'll call Papa out here, then," says he.
"My dear fellow," I says, "I wish you wouldn't. The fact is, I
don't take to Mr. Randall."
Case laughed, took a lantern from the store, and set out into the
village. He was gone perhaps a quarter of an hour, and he looked
mighty serious when he came back.
"Well," said he, clapping down the lantern on the verandah steps,
"I would never have believed it. I don't know where the impudence
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: of the plain. Now he must be up and doing. He drew from his breast pocket
a little sixpenny looking-glass, and hung it on one of the roots that stuck
out from the bank. Then he dressed himself in one of the old-fashioned
gowns and a great pinked-out collar. Then he took out a razor. Tuft by
tuft the soft brown beard fell down into the sand, and the little ants took
it to line their nests with. Then the glass showed a face surrounded by a
frilled cap, white as a woman's, with a little mouth, a very short upper
lip, and a receding chin.
Presently a rather tall woman's figure was making its way across the veld.
As it passed a hollowed-out antheap it knelt down, and stuffed in the
saddlebags with the man's clothing, closing up the anthill with bits of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: friends would never cease to sorrow for her loss. A tradesman who
described himself as a "monumental mason" furnished a book of
tomb designs, and Mr. Jansenius selected a highly ornamental one,
and proposed to defray half the cost of its erection. Trefusis
objected that the epitaph was untrue, and said that he did not
see why tombstones should be privileged to publish false
statements. It was reported that he had followed up his former
misconduct by calling his father-in-law a liar, and that he had
ordered a common tombstone from some cheap-jack at the East-end.
He had, in fact, spoken contemptuously of the monumental
tradesman as an "exploiter" of labor, and had asked a young
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