| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: footed and half-naked mountaineer with an ease and velocity which
excited the surprise and envy of Captain Dalgetty, who,
encumbered by his head-piece, corslet, and other armour, not to
mention his ponderous jack-boots, found himself at length so much
exhausted by fatigue, and the difficulties of the road, that he
sate down upon a stone in order to recover his breath, while he
explained to Ranald MacEagh the difference betwixt travelling
EXPEDITUS and IMPEDITUS, as these two military phrases were
understood at Mareschal-College, Aberdeen. The sole answer of
the mountaineer was to lay his hand on the soldier's arm, and
point backward in the direction of the wind. Dalgetty could spy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: 'In my own ship - but half-share was my Aunt's. In the ANTONY
OF RYE, to be sure; and not empty-handed. I'd been loadin' her for
three days with the pick of our yard. We was ballasted on cannon-
shot of all three sizes; and iron rods and straps for his carpenters;
and a nice passel of clean three-inch oak planking and hide breech-
ropes for his cannon, and gubs of good oakum, and bolts o'
canvas, and all the sound rope in the yard. What else could I ha'
done? I knowed what he'd need most after a week's such work.
I'm a shipbuilder, little maid.
'We'd a fair slant o' wind off Dungeness, and we crept on till it
fell light airs and puffed out. The Spanishers was all in a huddle
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: fury new among Samoans. When the battle ended on the following
day, one or more outworks remained in the possession of Mataafa.
Another had been taken and lost as many as four times. Carried
originally by a mixed force from Savaii and Tuamasanga, the
victors, instead of completing fresh defences or pursuing their
advantage, fell to eat and smoke and celebrate their victory with
impromptu songs. In this humour a rally of the Tamaseses smote
them, drove them out pell-mell, and tumbled them into the ravine,
where many broke their heads and legs. Again the work was taken,
again lost. Ammunition failed the belligerents; and they fought
hand to hand in the contested fort with axes, clubs, and clubbed
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