| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: extended arms, and regaining her footing she cried out: "Oh,
dear, oh, dear! It's in ribbons!"
Her lifted face, fresh and flushed in the driving rain, woke
in him a memory of having seen it at a distant time and in a
vaguely unsympathetic setting; but it was no moment to
follow up such clues, and the face was obviously one to make
its way on its own merits.
Its possessor had dropped her bag and bundles to clutch at
the tattered umbrella. "I bought it only yesterday at the
Stores; and--yes--it's utterly done for!" she lamented.
Darrow smiled at the intensity of her distress. It was food
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: know thee."
"It is not with you I have first to do," replied the stranger,
turning his light full on the mild and wasted features, and the
large limbs of the Highlander, Ranald MacEagh, who, close drawn
up against the walls of the dungeon, seemed yet uncertain whether
his guest was a living being.
"I have brought you something, my friend," said the stranger, in
a more soothing tone, "to mend your fare; if you are to die to-
morrow, it is no reason wherefore you should not live to-night."
"None at all--no reason in the creation," replied the ready
Captain Dalgetty, who forthwith began to unpack the contents of a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: The volumes were soon returned in a resplendent state, and,
it is said, quite to the satisfaction of his lordship,
whose pleasure, however, was sadly damped when a friend
pointed out to him that, although the discoloured edges had
all been ploughed off, and the time-stained blanks, with their
fifteenth century autographs, had been replaced by nice clean
fly-leaves, yet, looking at the result in its lowest aspect only--
that of market value--the books had been damaged to at least
the amount of L500; and, moreover, that caustic remarks
would most certainly follow upon their public exhibition.
Those poor injured volumes were never sent.
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