| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: 'Heavens, you remind me!' ejaculated Somerset. 'That brick
in your bag must be instantly disposed of. But how? If we
could throw it in the river - '
'A torpedo,' cried Zero, brightening, 'a torpedo in the
Thames! Superb, dear fellow! I recognise in you the marks
of an accomplished anarch.'
'True!' returned Somerset. 'It cannot so be done; and there
is no help but you must carry it away with you. Come on,
then, and let me at once consign you to a train.'
'Nay, nay, dear boy,' protested Zero. 'There is now no call
for me to leave. My character is now reinstated; my fame
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: Friar, and sung loud in the choir, and ate hearty at the board, I
could not have carried this disguise, but the very dogs would have
spied us out and barked at us for shams."
He was by this time close to the window of the farm, and he rose on
his tip-toes and peeped in.
"Nay," he cried, "better and better. We shall here try our false
faces with a vengeance, and have a merry jest on Brother Capper to
boot."
And so saying, he opened the door and led the way into the house.
Three of their own company sat at the table, greedily eating.
Their daggers, stuck beside them in the board, and the black and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: who in turn was looking at the mainmast. There seemed to be
something in the very way Cap'n Abernethy looked at the mainmast
which jarred on Mr. Watkins. Mr. Watkins dropped his voice,
indicating the Cap'n with a curved, disparaging thumb, as he
asked Cleggett:
"Is HE going to sail her?"
"Why not?"
"Oh--nothing; nothing at all," said Mr. Watkins. "It's none o' MY
business."
Cleggett began to be a little annoyed. "Have you," he said with
dignity, and fixing a rather stern glance upon Mr. Watkins, "have
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