| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: snow.
Those who have never known a lover's sin
Let them not read my ditty, it will be
To their dull ears so musicless and thin
That they will have no joy of it, but ye
To whose wan cheeks now creeps the lingering smile,
Ye who have learned who Eros is, - O listen yet awhile.
A little space he let his greedy eyes
Rest on the burnished image, till mere sight
Half swooned for surfeit of such luxuries,
And then his lips in hungering delight
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: view of preventing any race from becoming extinct. And when he had
provided against their destruction by one another, he contrived also a
means of protecting them against the seasons of heaven; clothing them with
close hair and thick skins sufficient to defend them against the winter
cold and able to resist the summer heat, so that they might have a natural
bed of their own when they wanted to rest; also he furnished them with
hoofs and hair and hard and callous skins under their feet. Then he gave
them varieties of food,--herb of the soil to some, to others fruits of
trees, and to others roots, and to some again he gave other animals as
food. And some he made to have few young ones, while those who were their
prey were very prolific; and in this manner the race was preserved. Thus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: I've done--you mark my words, George,--twenty--five to you.... I
got this situation within twenty-four hours--others offered.
It's an important firm--one of the best in London. I looked to
that. I might have got four or five shillings a week
more--elsewhere. Quarters I could name. But I said to them
plainly, wages to go on with, but opportunity's my
game--development. We understood each other."
He threw out his chest, and the little round eyes behind his
glasses rested valiantly on imaginary employers.
We would go on in silence for a space while he revised and
restated that encounter. Then he would break out abruptly with
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