| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: humor, and when they'd gathered in the lobby Miss Summers gave an
imitation of Marie Dressler doing the Salome dance. Every now
and then somebody would look out and say it was still snowing,
and with the memory of the drifts and the cold stove in the
railroad station behind them, they'd gather closer around the
fire and insist that they would go as soon as the road was
cleared.
But with the exception of Mr. von Inwald, not one of them really
wanted to go. As Doctor Barnes said over the news stand, each
side was bluffing and wouldn't call the other, and the fellow
with the most nerve would win.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Presently the King and Queen, adding their pleas
to those of the chirurgeon, prevailed upon him to lie
down once more, and when he had done so they left
him, that he might sleep again; but no sooner had the
door closed behind them than he arose and left the
apartment by another exit.
It was by chance that, in a deep set window, he
found her for whom he was searching. She sat looking
wistfully into space, an expression half sad upon her
beautiful face. She did not see him as he approached,
and he stood there for several moments watching her
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: pressed about him, he made his way into the house, and committed
himself to Calpurnia, begging of her to secure him till Caesar
returned, because he had matters of great importance to
communicate to him.
Artemidorus, a Cnidian, a teacher of Greek logic, and by that
means so far acquainted with Brutus and his friends as to have
got into the secret, brought Caesar in a small written memorial,
the heads of what he had to depose. He had observed that
Caesar, as he received any papers, presently gave them to the
servants who attended on him; and therefore came as near to him
as he could, and said, "Read this, Caesar, alone, and quickly,
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