| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: his room. When he came downstairs his wife was already seated at
the breakfast-table. She lifted her usual smile to his entrance
and they took shelter in the nearest topic, like wayfarers
overtaken by a storm. While he listened to her account of the
concert he began to think that, after all, she had not yet sorted
the papers, and that her agitation of the previous day must be
ascribed to another cause, in which perhaps he had but an indirect
concern. He wondered it had never before occurred to him that
Flamel was the kind of man who might very well please a woman at
his own expense, without need of fortuitous assistance. If this
possibility cleared the outlook it did not brighten it. Glennard
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: trim of the sails; inhaling deep draughts of the fresh
air. Only then he would step out on the poop, acknowl-
edging the hand raised to the peak of the cap with a
majestic and benign "Good morning to you." He
walked the deck till eight scrupulously. Sometimes, not
above twice a year, he had to use a thick cudgel-like
stick on account of a stiffness in the hip--a slight touch
of rheumatism, he supposed. Otherwise he knew nothing
of the ills of the flesh. At the ringing of the breakfast
bell he went below to feed his canaries, wind up the
chronometers, and take the head of the table. From
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: has left, and give the police all the information he can, so that
they will get you too.
He stumbled pitifully.
"I can't walk much yet." He was striving to speak coolly. "They
trussed me up a bit, you know - but I'll be all right in a little
while when I get the cramps out of my joints and the circulation
back. And so, Miss Gray, won't you please go at once? I'm free
now, and I'll manage all right, and-"
The Sparrow came running back from the door.
"They're comm'!" he said excitedly. "They're comm' from a different
way than we came in. I saw 'em sway up there across the yard for a
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