| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: N. Junction. We did not stay there. I remember yet when they
went to put my mother in the grave. I jumped in with her. We
put right out and after awhile folks wrote that father was
dead.''
So much attention would not have been paid to this gruesome tale
had it not been repeated to various people during the course of
several months. The boy wrote letters reiterating these
incidents. His stories always went on to include the most
surprising amount of abuse. It seemed that everywhere he had
been illtreated. Farmers had whipped him, or clothed him badly,
or defrauded him of his wages.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Ranged themselves reproachfully
Round my bed.
But I could not heed them,
For I seemed to see
The eyes of my new love
Fixed on me.
Old love, old love,
How can I be true?
Shall I be faithless to myself
Or to you?
THE LOOK
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: together as I passed through the Music-room.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Don't trouble, Miss Worsley, I can wait. It is of
no consequence.
HESTER. No, I'll tell him you want him. Do - do ask him to stay.
[Exit HESTER.]
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. He won't come - I know he won't come.
[Enter LADY CAROLINE. She looks round anxiously. Enter GERALD.]
LADY CAROLINE. Mr. Arbuthnot, may I ask you is Sir John anywhere
on the terrace?
GERALD. No, Lady Caroline, he is not on the terrace.
LADY CAROLINE. It is very curious. It is time for him to retire.
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