| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: few steps along the passage. "This extraordinary 'general
intention,' as you call it - for that's the most vivid description
I can induce you to make of it - is then, generally, a sort of
buried treasure?"
His face lighted. "Yes, call it that, though it's perhaps not for
me to do so."
"Nonsense!" I laughed. "You know you're hugely proud of it."
"Well, I didn't propose to tell you so; but it IS the joy of my
soul!"
"You mean it's a beauty so rare, so great?"
He waited a little again. "The loveliest thing in the world!" We
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No
pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its
Avatar and its seal--the redness and the horror of blood. There were
sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the
pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and
especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which
shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men.
And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease,
were the incidents of half an hour.
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.
When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: trees or the tops of their wagons." It is of these women that Valerius
Maximus says, that, "If the gods on the day of battle had inspired the men
with equal fortitude, Marius would never have boasted of his Teutonic
victory;" and of whom Tacitus, speaking of those women who accompanied
their husbands to war, remarks, "These are the darling witnesses of his
conduct, the applauders of his valour, at once beloved and valued. The
wounded seek their mothers and their wives; undismayed at the sight, the
women count each honourable scar and suck the gushing blood. They are even
hardy enough to mix with the combatants, administering refreshment and
exhorting them to deeds of valour," and adds moreover, that "To be
contented with one wife was peculiar to the Germans; while the woman was
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