| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: man could trace his footsteps, and hid him in a hole in the river wall.
And when the men broke into the hut they could find no white man, and no
traces of his feet. But at evening, when the black servant returned to the
hut to get food and medicine for his master, the men who were fighting
caught him, and they said, 'Oh, you betrayer of your people, white man's
dog, who are on the side of those who take our lands and our wives and our
daughters before our eyes; tell us where you have hidden him?' And when he
would not answer them, they killed him before the door of the hut. And
when the night came, the white man crept up on his hands and knees, and
came to his hut to look for food. All the other men were gone, but his
servant lay dead before the door; and the white man knew how it must have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: have the honor of claiming him as a fellow countryman.
"Take care you don't hurt your teeth," he said, paternally.
"I haven't got any teeth to hurt. They have all come out.
I have only got seven teeth. My mother counted them last night,
and one came out right afterward. She said she'd slap me
if any more came out. I can't help it. It's this old Europe.
It's the climate that makes them come out. In America they
didn't come out. It's these hotels."
Winterbourne was much amused. "If you eat three lumps of sugar,
your mother will certainly slap you," he said.
"She's got to give me some candy, then," rejoined his young interlocutor.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: fashion of opening beer bottles; and this cousin's achievement had set
him to looking about him. He soon discovered that in our great republic
everywhere there were living hundreds and thousands of men and women who
were utterly unaware that they were descended from kings. Borrowing a
little money to float him, he set up The American Almanach de Gotha and
began (for the minimum sum of fifty dollars a pedigree) to reveal to
these eager people the chain of links that connected them with royalty.
Thus, in a period of time the brevity of which is incredible, this young
man passed from complete indigence to a wife and four automobiles, or an
automobile and four wives--I don't remember which he had the four of.
There was so much royal blood about that it had spilled into several
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