| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: cheerful over his chicken and coffee. "I came up here to-night,
the proud possessor of a bunch of keys, a patent folding cork-
screw and a pocket, automobile road map. Inside two hours I have
a sanatorium and a wife. At this rate, Minnie, before morning I
may reasonably hope to have a family."
I sat where I was on the floor and stared into the fire. Don't
tell me the way of the wicked is hard; the wicked get all the fun
there is out of life, and as far as I can see, it's the
respectable "in at ten o'clock and up at seven" part of the
wicked's family that has all the trouble and does the worrying.
"If we could only keep it hidden for a few days!" I said.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Haeduis intercederent, quae senatus consulta quotiens quamque honorifica
in eos facta essent, ut omni tempore totius Galliae principatum Haedui
tenuissent, prius etiam quam nostram amicitiam adpetissent. Populi Romani
hanc esse consuetudinem, ut socios atque amicos non modo sui nihil
deperdere, sed gratia, dignitate, honore auctiores velit esse; quod vero
ad amicitiam populi Romani attulissent, id iis eripi quis pati posset?
Postulavit deinde eadem quae legatis in mandatis dederat: ne aut Haeduis
aut eorum sociis bellum inferret, obsides redderet, si nullam partem
Germanorum domum remittere posset, at ne quos amplius Rhenum transire
pateretur.
Ariovistus ad postulata Caesaris pauca respondit, de suis virtutibus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: passed under the castle with much shouting and laughter, cried out,
on purpose to dishearten the besieged, that he was come from
vanquishing and taking the Corinthian succors, which he fell upon at
sea as they were passing over into Sicily. While he was thus biding
and playing his tricks before Syracuse, the Corinthians, now come as
far as Rhegium, observing the coast clear, and that the wind was laid
as it were by miracle, to afford them in all appearance a quiet and
smooth passage, went immediately aboard on such little barks and
fishing-boats as were then at hand, and got over to Sicily with such
complete safety and in such an extraordinary calm, that they drew
their horses by the reins, swimming along by them as the vessels went
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