| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: "The normal woman centres upon herself; her mission is her own charm
and her own beauty and her own setting; her place is her home. She
demands the concentration of a man. Not to be able to command that
is her failure. Not to give her that is to shame her. As I had
shamed Amanda. . . ."
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"There are no such women." He had written this in and struck it
out, and then at some later time written it in again. There it
stayed now as his last persuasion, but it set White thinking and
doubting. And, indeed, there was another sheet of pencilled broken
stuff that seemed to glance at quite another type of womanhood.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: lose its equilibrium, and sending it to earth in the manner of
the proverbial stone, the aviators either being dashed to pieces
or burned to death.
What are the vulnerable parts of the aeroplane? While the
deliberate intention of either combatant is to put his antagonist
hors de combat, the disablement of the machine may be achieved
without necessarily killing or even seriously wounding the
hostile airman. The prevailing type of aeroplane is highly
susceptible to derangement: it is like a ship without armour
plate protection. The objective of the antagonist is the motor
or the fuel-tank, the vital parts of the machine, as much as the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: dead, these foolish monuments; they are pillars and legends set up
to glorify the difficult but not desperate life of man. This
ground is hallowed by the heroes of defeat.
I see the indifferent pass before my friend's last resting-place;
pause, with a shrug of pity, marvelling that so rich an argosy had
sunk. A pity, now that he is done with suffering, a pity most
uncalled for, and an ignorant wonder. Before those who loved him,
his memory shines like a reproach; they honour him for silent
lessons; they cherish his example; and in what remains before them
of their toil, fear to be unworthy of the dead. For this proud man
was one of those who prospered in the valley of humiliation; - of
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