| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: national fuel supply. And waste it! For their profits. That's
what I'm up against. You don't know the job I have to do. You
don't know what a Commission of that sort is. The moral
tangle of it. You don't know how its possibilities and
limitations are canvassed and schemed about, long before a
single member is appointed. Old Cassidy worked the whole
thing with the prime minister. I can see that now as plain as
daylight. I might have seen it at first. . . . Three experts
who'd been got at; they thought _I_'d been got at; two Labour
men who'd do anything you wanted them to do provided you
called them 'level-headed.' Wagstaffe the socialist art
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: "You would certainly seem to have seen, these twenty-four hours,
a good deal more of it than for some time before. I hope,"
I went on bravely, "that you've been enjoying yourself."
"Oh, yes, I've been ever so far; all round about--miles and miles away.
I've never been so free."
He had really a manner of his own, and I could only try to keep up with him.
"Well, do you like it?"
He stood there smiling; then at last he put into two words--"Do YOU?"--
more discrimination than I had ever heard two words contain.
Before I had time to deal with that, however, he continued as if
with the sense that this was an impertinence to be softened.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: thereto, and what is thine advice? Say on; I adjure thee in the
name of truth; for I know thee to be true and wise above all
men."
The worthy man, hearing this, but never guessing the hidden
pitfall, was pricked in spirit, and, melting into tears, answered
in his simplicity, "O king, live for ever! Good and sound is the
determination that thou hast determined; for though the kingdom
of heaven be difficult to find, yet must a man seek it with all
his might, for it is written, `He that seeketh shall find it.'
The enjoyment of the present life, though in seeming it give
delight and sweetness, is well thrust from us. At the very
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