| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: after the Marne, and went into the first line trenches and peeped
towards the invisible enemy. To show me exactly where to look a
seventy-five obliged with a shell. In the crypt of the Abbey of
St. Medard near by it--it must provoke the Germans bitterly to
think that all the rest of the building vanished ages ago--the
French boys sleep beside the bones of King Childebert the Second.
They shelter safely in the prison of Louis the Pious. An
ineffective shell from a German seventy-seven burst in the walled
garden close at hand as I came out from those thousand-year-old
memories again.
The cathedral at Soissons had not been nearly so completely
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: Monument, the Corcoran Gallery, the Pan-American Building,
the Lincoln Memorial, with the Potomac beyond it and the
Arlington hills and the columns of the Lee Mansion. For all
his willingness to play there was over him a melancholy which
piqued her. His normally expressionless eyes had depths to
them now, and strangeness. As they walked through Lafayette
Square, looking past the Jackson statue at the lovely tranquil
facade of the White House, he sighed, "I wish I'd had a shot
at places like this. When I was in the U., I had to earn part
of my way, and when I wasn't doing that or studying, I guess
I was roughhousing. My gang were a great bunch for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: And he looked at Medeia cunningly, and held her with his
glittering eye, till she blushed and trembled, and said -
'Who can face the fire of the bulls' breath, and fight ten
thousand armed men?'
'He whom you help,' said Jason, flattering her, 'for your
fame is spread over all the earth. Are you not the queen of
all enchantresses, wiser even than your sister Circe, in her
fairy island in the West?'
'Would that I were with my sister Circe in her fairy island
in the West, far away from sore temptation and thoughts which
tear the heart! But if it must be so - for why should you
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