| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: was dressing, Luigi fetched the witnesses necessary to sign the
certificate of marriage. These witnesses were worthy persons; one, a
cavalry sergeant, was under obligations to Luigi, contracted on the
battlefield, obligations which are never obliterated from the heart of
an honest man; the other, a master-mason, was the proprietor of the
house in which the young couple had hired an apartment for their
future home. Each witness brought a friend, and all four, with Luigi,
came to escort the bride. Little accustomed to social functions, and
seeing nothing in the service they were rendering to Luigi but a
simple matter of business, they were dressed in their ordinary
clothes, without any luxury, and nothing about them denoted the usual
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: unwieldy gate. Attempting to ask where I was, my voice died away,
and I tried to raise it in vain, as I have done in a dream.
I looked for my babe with affright; feared that it had fallen out of
my lap, while I had so strangely forgotten her; and, such was the
vague intoxication, I can give it no other name, in which I was
plunged, I could not recollect when or where I last saw you; but
I sighed, as if my heart wanted room to clear my head.
"The gates opened heavily, and the sullen sound of many locks
and bolts drawn back, grated on my very soul, before I was appalled
by the creeking of the dismal hinges, as they closed after me.
The gloomy pile was before me, half in ruins; some of the aged
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: In such great number come to Mertia?
And have they pitched there their petty host,
So close unto our royal mansion?
ASSARACHUS.
They are, my Lord, and mean incontinent
To bid defiance to your majesty.
LOCRINE.
It makes me laugh, to think that Gwendoline
Should have the heart to come in arms gainst me.
ESTRILD.
Alas, my Lord, the horse will run amain,
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