| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: articles which could abide nowhere else but in that very sack, and
they unloaded again.
Three men from a neighboring tent came out and looked on, grinning
and winking at one another.
"You've got a right smart load as it is," said one of them; "and
it's not me should tell you your business, but I wouldn't tote
that tent along if I was you."
"Undreamed of!" cried Mercedes, throwing up her hands in dainty
dismay. "However in the world could I manage without a tent?"
"It's springtime, and you won't get any more cold weather," the
man replied.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: veranda?"
"I had reasons for thinking it was a man," I said remembering the
pearl cuff-link.
"Now we are getting down to business. WHAT were your reasons
for thinking that?"
I hesitated.
"If you have any reason for believing that your midnight guest
was Mr. Armstrong, other than his visit here the next night, you
ought to tell me, Miss Innes. We can take nothing for granted.
If, for instance, the intruder who dropped the bar and scratched
the staircase--you see, I know about that--if this visitor was a
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: be shaken off.
Such is the manner in which diseases of the body arise; the disorders of
the soul, which depend upon the body, originate as follows. We must
acknowledge disease of the mind to be a want of intelligence; and of this
there are two kinds; to wit, madness and ignorance. In whatever state a
man experiences either of them, that state may be called disease; and
excessive pains and pleasures are justly to be regarded as the greatest
diseases to which the soul is liable. For a man who is in great joy or in
great pain, in his unseasonable eagerness to attain the one and to avoid
the other, is not able to see or to hear anything rightly; but he is mad,
and is at the time utterly incapable of any participation in reason. He
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