| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "Then it will be all over?"
The Baroness lifted her hand, and dropped it again.
"Of course I shall keep my title; at least, I shall be at
liberty to keep it if I choose. And I suppose I shall keep it.
One must have a name. And I shall keep my pension.
It is very small--it is wretchedly small; but it is what
I live on."
"And you have only to sign that paper?" Acton asked.
The Baroness looked at him a moment. "Do you urge it?"
He got up slowly, and stood with his hands in his pockets.
"What do you gain by not doing it?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: He had tried to do his duty, but it seemed as if Destiny herself
had turned traitor. He was oppressed with the sense of the
barrenness of good intentions, of the futility of trying to be
fine. Perhaps, it would be better to break off the marriage
altogether. Sybil would suffer, it is true, but suffering could
not really mar a nature so noble as hers. As for himself, what did
it matter? There is always some war in which a man can die, some
cause to which a man can give his life, and as life had no pleasure
for him, so death had no terror. Let Destiny work out his doom.
He would not stir to help her.
At half-past seven he dressed, and went down to the club. Surbiton
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: was the sudden thought that John had taken his own life. It was a
perfectly natural thought when I considered his nervousness, and his
peculiar actions of the evening before. I believe I exclaimed,
'It was a suicide!' almost without realising that I was doing so.
The commissioner looked at me sharply and said that suicide was out
of the question, that it was an evident case of murder. He
questioned me as to Siders' affairs, of which I told only what every
one here in the village knew. I did not consider it incumbent upon
me to disclose to the police the disgrace of the man's early life.
I had been obliged to hurt him cruelly enough because of that, and
I saw no necessity for blackening his name, now that he was dead.
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