| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: cigar went out, but he did not notice that, and chewed away quite
contentedly on the dead butt. When he had finished, his cold eye
exhibited a gleam of satisfaction. He had resolved on a course of
action. At ten o'clock he went to bed.
Next morning Mallock closed the door behind him promptly upon the
stroke of eight. It was strange that not one living soul but
Mallock had ever entered Newmark's abode. Curiosity had at first
brought a few callers; but these were always met by the
imperturbable servant with so plausible a reason for his master's
absence that the visitors had departed without a suspicion that they
had been deliberately excluded. And as Newmark made no friends and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: another,
in the addition which each made to the singular and tranquil
splendor of
the city.
As the little company came, one by one, to the mansions which
were
prepared for them, and their Guide beckoned to the happy
inhabitant
to enter in and take possession, there was a soft murmur of joy,
half wonder and half recognition; as if the new and immortal
dwelling
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Holding the second housemaid on his knees--
Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived.
Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills--
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
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