| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: However, Sir Reginald, the young, handsome hero of this tale, out of
the goodness of his heart, his love for the king, and the excitement
of the challenge (and scarcely considering the money or the girl more
than four or five hours a day), decided to take a few minutes to
examine the problem before he tried to solve it.
"Just what is it the king wants to do?" he asked himself. "He wants
to send his mail quickly. And just what is mail? It's a message,
information. Information, hmm. Information can be sent
electronically, by wire or transmission. Yes. Hmm. Yes--A
transmitter on one end and a printer on the other end would permit
the king's mail to be sent at the speed of light. That should pretty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: She well remembered, to her cost,
That all his lessons were not lost.
Two maxims she could still produce,
And sad experience taught her use;
That virtue, pleased by being shown,
Knows nothing which it dare not own;
Can make us without fear disclose
Our inmost secrets to our foes;
That common forms were not designed
Directors to a noble mind.
Now, said the nymph, I'll let you see
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Hitherto happy in the continued support of one of the white Powers,
he now found himself - or thought himself - threatened with war by
no less than two others.
Tamasese boats as they passed Matautu were in the habit of firing
on the shore, as like as not without particular aim, and more in
high spirits than hostility. One of these shots pierced the house
of a British subject near the consulate; the consul reported to
Admiral Fairfax; and, on the morning of the 10th, the admiral
despatched Captain Kane of the CALLIOPE to Mulinuu. Brandeis met
the messenger with voluble excuses and engagements for the future.
He was told his explanations were satisfactory so far as they went,
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