| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: "As through the drop I go, drop I go,
As through the drop I go, drop I go,
As through the drop I go,
Down to hell that yawns below,
Twenty stiffs all in a row
Damn your eyes"
"That's the kind of man I have to deal with," muttered Wilbur.
"It's encouraging, and there's no one to talk to. Not much help
in a Chinaman and a crazy girl in a man's oilskins. It's about
the biggest situation you ever faced, Ross Wilbur, and you're all
alone. What the devil are you going to do?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: decent figure, but he was unsteady in the saddle, and he
seemed to be deep in the contemplation of some vexing
problem. Coltrane left him in his mood, relying upon the
influence of changed surroundings to restore his
equilibrium.
Once Goree was seized with a shaking fit, and almost
came to a collapse. He had to dismount and rest at the
side of the road. The colonel, foreseeing such a con-
dition, had provided a small flask of whisky for the journey
but when it was offered to him Goree refused it almost
with violence, declaring he would never touch it again.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: of being wits; to support which, they never fail of encouraging a
number of followers and admirers, who list themselves in their
service, wherein they find their accounts on both sides by pleasing
their mutual vanity. This hath given the former such an air of
superiority, and made the latter so pragmatical, that neither of
them are well to be endured. I say nothing here of the itch of
dispute and contradiction, telling of lies, or of those who are
troubled with the disease called the wandering of the thoughts,
that they are never present in mind at what passeth in discourse;
for whoever labours under any of these possessions is as unfit for
conversation as madmen in Bedlam.
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