| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: subordinate, and letting the department get all the credit for his
most brilliant achievements. It's a sort of incorrigible humbleness
of nature - and then, you know, he had the misfortune to be unjustly
sentenced to a term in prison in his early youth."
"No, I did not know that."
"The stigma stuck to his name, and finally drove him to take up
this work. I don't think Muller realised, when he began, just
how greatly he is gifted. I don't know that he really knows now.
He seems to do it because he likes it - he's a queer sort of man."
While the commissioners drove through the streets to the police
station the man of whom they were speaking sat in Johann's little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: again saw, several hundred feet above the gardens of the upper
village, the church and the parsonage, which he had already seen from
a distance confusedly mingled with the imposing ruins clothed with
creepers of the old castle of Montegnac, one of the residences of the
Navarreins family in the twelfth century.
The parsonage, a house originally built no doubt for the bailiff or
game-keeper, was noticeable for a long raised terrace planted with
lindens from which a fine view extended over the country. The steps
leading to this terrace and the walls which supported it showed their
great age by the ravages of time. The flat moss which clings to stones
had laid its dragon-green carpet on each surface. The numerous
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: and as I have more than I shall need, I will share what I have
with you. Come in and shut the door."
He led the way, the spendthrift following, to a little room all
of bare stone, and in which were only three things--the magic
carpet, the iron candlestick, and the earthen jar. This last the
old man gave to the foolish spendthrift. "My friend," said he,
"when you chose the money and jewels that day in the cavern, you
chose the less for the greater. Here is a treasure that an
emperor might well envy you. Whatever you wish for you will find
by dipping your hand into the jar. Now go your way, and let what
was happened cure you of your folly."
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