| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: light.
"We've come now," said he, "to the question of how far you're willing
to go in a little matter of the sort."
"I told you why I came down here," said the Kid simply.
"A good answer," said the consul. "But you won't have to go that far.
Here's the scheme. After I get the trademark tattooed on your hand
I'll notify old Urique. In the meantime I'll furnish you with all of
the family history I can find out, so you can be studying up points to
talk about. You've got the looks, you speak the Spanish, you know the
facts, you can tell about Texas, you've got the tattoo mark. When I
notify them that the rightful heir has returned and is waiting to know
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: determine matters in a summary way, as is practised in those we
call Pye Powder Courts in other places, or as a Court of
Conscience; and they have a final authority without appeal.
I come now to the town and university of Cambridge; I say the town
and university, for though they are blended together in the
situation, and the colleges, halls, and houses for literature are
promiscuously scattered up and down among the other parts, and some
even among the meanest of the other buildings, as Magdalene College
over the bridge is in particular; yet they are all incorporated
together by the name of the university, and are governed apart and
distinct from the town which they are so intermixed with.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: astare. There were days when I thought of writing to Hugh Vereker
and simply throwing myself on his charity. But I felt more deeply
that I hadn't fallen quite so low - besides which, quite properly,
he would send me about my business. Mrs. Erme's death brought
Corvick straight home, and within the month he was united "very
quietly" - as quietly, I seemed to make out, as he meant in his
article to bring out his trouvaille - to the young lady he had
loved and quitted. I use this last term, I may parenthetically
say, because I subsequently grew sure that at the time he went to
India, at the time of his great news from Bombay, there had been no
positive pledge between them whatever. There had been none at the
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