| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: had read this report through, he turned to the other papers. He was
quite calm now, outwardly calm at least.
When he had finished reading the papers he laid them in a heap
beside him and reached out for his notebook. As he opened it the
two watchers saw that between its first pages there was a sealed and
addressed letter. Two other envelopes were contained in the
notebook, envelopes which were also addressed although still open.
Muller's sharp eyes could read the addresses as Thorne took them up
in turn, looking long at each of them. One envelope was addressed
in Italian to the Chief of Police of Venice, the other to the Chief
of Police in Vienna.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: And God closed the Book of the Life of the Man, and said, 'Surely I
will send thee into Hell. Even into Hell will I send thee.'
And the Man cried out, 'Thou canst not.'
And God said to the Man, 'Wherefore can I not send thee to Hell,
and for what reason?'
'Because in Hell have I always lived,' answered the Man.
And there was silence in the House of Judgment.
And after a space God spake, and said to the Man, 'Seeing that I
may not send thee into Hell, surely I will send thee unto Heaven.
Even unto Heaven will I send thee.'
And the Man cried out, 'Thou canst not.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: -nay, that it must have come--is matter of history. And its cause,
like all social causes, was not a political nor a physical, but a
moral cause. The profligacy of the French and Italian
aristocracies, in the sixteenth century, avenged itself on them by a
curse (derived from the newly-discovered America) from which they
never recovered. The Spanish aristocracy suffered, I doubt not very
severely. The English and German, owing to the superior homeliness
and purity of ruling their lives, hardly at all. But the
continental caste, instead of recruiting their tainted blood by
healthy blood from below, did all, under pretence of keeping it
pure, to keep it tainted by continual intermarriage; and paid, in
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