| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: misfortune? With it all I ADORE Judy Harbottle. I love her, as I
have always loved her, and--it's damnable, but I don't know whether,
whatever happened, I wouldn't go on loving her.'
'Finish your peg,' I said. She was sobbing.
'Where I blame myself most,' she went on, 'is for not seeing in him
all that makes him mature to her--that makes her forget the absurd
difference between them, and take him simply and sincerely as I know
she does, as the contemporary of her soul if not of her body. I saw
none of that. Could I, as his mother? Would he show it to me? I
thought him just a charming boy, clever, too, of course, with nice
instincts and well plucked; we were always proud of that, with his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: banjo, and had the air of not knowing what they meant when they
talked, and of keeping something rather important back. Pemberton
judged that what she kept back was an approval of many of their
ways; therefore it was to be supposed that she too was of a good
type, and that Mr. and Mrs. Moreen and Ulick and Paula and Amy
might easily have been of a better one if they would.
But that they wouldn't was more and more perceptible from day to
day. They continued to "chivey," as Morgan called it, and in due
time became aware of a variety of reasons for proceeding to Venice.
They mentioned a great many of them - they were always strikingly
frank and had the brightest friendly chatter, at the late foreign
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: magistrate had chanced to be on the bench, and he had stated that
he had never been arrested before, and also that he had been
attacked first--and if only someone had been there to speak a
good word for him, he could have been let off at once.
But Harper explained that he had been downtown, and had not got
the message. "What's happened to you?" he asked.
"I've been doing a fellow up," said Jurgis, "and I've got to get
five hundred dollars' bail."
"I can arrange that all right," said the other--"though it may
cost you a few dollars, of course. But what was the trouble?"
"It was a man that did me a mean trick once," answered Jurgis.
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