| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: "On the stairs she spoke to her persecutor.
" 'Monsieur, I am about to call upon one of my husband's relatives, an
elderly lady, Mme. de Bonfalot--'
" 'Ah! Mme. de Bonfalot, charmed, I am sure. I am going there.'
"The pair accordingly went. Charles Edward came in with the lady,
every one believed that she had brought him with her. He took part in
the conversation, was lavish of his polished and brilliant wit. The
visit lengthened out. That was not what he wanted.
" 'Madame,' he said, addressing the fair stranger, 'do not forget that
your husband is waiting for us, and only allowed us a quarter of an
hour.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Muller equally calmly, and ordered the man to drive through the
gateway into the inner courtyard. He himself got into the wagon,
and in the course of the short drive he had made a discovery. He
had found a tiny glass stopper, such as is used in perfume bottles.
He could understand from this why the odour of perfume which had
now become familiar to him was still so strong inside the old cab.
Also why it was so strong on the delicate handkerchief. Asta Langen
had taken the stopper from the bottle in her pocket, so as to leave
a trail of odour behind her.
CHAPTER THREE
THE LONELY COTTAGE
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: The arms were round him. He did not want to have arms round him,
and the mysterious whispering voices annoyed him. He laid Rachel's hand,
which was now cold, upon the counterpane, and rose from his chair,
and walked across to the window. The windows were uncurtained,
and showed the moon, and a long silver pathway upon the surface of
the waves.
"Why," he said, in his ordinary tone of voice, "look at the moon.
There's a halo round the moon. We shall have rain to-morrow."
The arms, whether they were the arms of man or of woman, were round
him again; they were pushing him gently towards the door. He turned
of his own accord and walked steadily in advance of the arms,
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