| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: other he stammered: "No--go--on, go on! I want you to tell me."
"But, John darling--"
"Tell me, Janey!"
"There's nothing to tell," she said, wondering. "He was one of the first-
class passengers. I saw he was very ill when he came on board...But he
seemed to be so much better until yesterday. He had a severe attack in the
afternoon--excitement--nervousness, I think, about arriving. And after
that he never recovered."
"But why didn't the stewardess--"
"Oh, my dear--the stewardess!" said Janey. "What would he have felt? And
besides...he might have wanted to leave a message...to--"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: other half it is a blackish-brown. The rest of the body is pale-
yellow, except in front, where the eyes form a black edging. When
left alone, the little ones remain motionless in the soft, russet
swan's-down; if disturbed, they shuffle lazily where they are, or
even walk about in a hesitating and unsteady fashion. One can see
that they have to ripen before venturing outside.
Maturity is achieved in the exquisite floss that surrounds the
natal chamber and fills out the balloon. This is the waiting-room
in which the body hardens. All dive into it as and when they
emerge from the central keg. They will not leave it until four
months later, when the midsummer heats have come.
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: of courage.
[24] {edasato}, "Cyrop." IV. ii. 43.
[25] Cf. "Hipparch," vii. 7; Aristot. "Pol." iii. 2; "Oecon." iii.
"And seeing that both alike feel the need of giving and receiving, He
set down memory and carefulness between them for their common use,[26]
so that you would find it hard to determine which of the two, the male
or the female, has the larger share of these. So, too, God set down
between them for their common use the gift of self-control, where
needed, adding only to that one of the twain, whether man or woman,
which should prove the better, the power to be rewarded with a larger
share of this perfection. And for the very reason that their natures
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