| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: said. "That hasn't been brought in yet."
Harran nodded.
"I'll see about it. You've got all the blue-stone you want, have
you, Phelps?" and without waiting for an answer he added, "Tell
the stableman I shall want the team about nine o'clock to go to
Guadalajara. Put them in the buggy. The bays, you understand."
When the other had gone, Harran drank off the rest of his coffee,
and, rising, passed through the dining-room and across a stone-
paved hallway with a glass roof into the office just beyond.
The office was the nerve-centre of the entire ten thousand acres
of Los Muertos, but its appearance and furnishings were not in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: of which the Claes pride had carved a pair of shuttles. The recess of
the doorway, which was built of freestone, was topped by a pointed
arch bearing a little shrine surmounted by a cross, in which was a
statuette of Sainte-Genevieve plying her distaff. Though time had left
its mark upon the delicate workmanship of portal and shrine, the
extreme care taken of it by the servants of the house allowed the
passers-by to note all its details.
The casing of the door, formed by fluted pilasters, was dark gray in
color, and so highly polished that it shone as if varnished. On either
side of the doorway, on the ground-floor, were two windows, which
resembled all the other windows of the house. The casing of white
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: jewelry, especially in the form of rings, though coloured stones,
polished, but not cut, have always been more popular with the
Chinese. The turquoise, the emerald, the sapphire, the ruby and
the other precious stones with colour have, therefore, always
graced the tables of the bazars in the capital, while the diamond
until very recently was relegated to the point of the tinker's
drill.
There is another method of bringing bits of their ancient
handiwork to the capital which most of those living in Peking,
even, know nothing about. A company, whose headquarters is at an
inn, called the Hsing Lung Tien, sends agents all over the
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