| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: into a fashion is because it makes her look extrava-
gantly handsome.--Ladies, I must wish you a good
morning.
CHARLOTTE
But, brother, you are going to make home with us.
MANLY
Indeed I cannot. I have seen my uncle and
explained that matter.
CHARLOTTE
Come and dine with us, then. We have a family
dinner about half-past four o'clock.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: diffident as he is about his luck, has no misgivings as to his
strength and destiny. He gives her his affection at once, and
abandons himself to the charm of the night and the season; for it
is the beginning of Spring. They soon learn from their
confidences that she is his stolen twin-sister. He is transported
to find that the heroic race of the Volsungs need neither perish
nor be corrupted by a lower strain. Hailing the sword by the name
of Nothung (or Needed), he plucks it from the tree as her
bride-gift, and then, crying "Both bride and sister be of thy
brother; and blossom the blood of the Volsungs!" clasps her as
the mate the Spring has brought him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: they lapsed into one of the pauses that are a subterranean channel
of communication.
It was she who, after awhile, began to speak with a new suffusing
diffidence that made him turn a roused eye on her.
"Don't they say," she asked, feeling her way as in a kind of
tender apprehensiveness, "that the early Christians, instead of
pulling down the heathen temples--the temples of the unclean gods--
purified them by turning them to their own uses? I've always
thought one might do that with one's actions--the actions one
loathes but can't undo. One can make, I mean, a wrong the door to
other wrongs or an impassable wall against them. . . ." Her voice
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