| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: choked into silence.
"Yes--and then?" the girl asked.
"And then he come home one night wild drunk. He
stumble and fall across the cradle and hurt my baby so
she never cry--just lie still and tremble--her eyes
wide open at first and then they droop and close and
she die!
"He laugh and curse and strike me, and I fight him
like a tiger. He was strong--he throw me down on the
floor and gouge my eye out with his big claw----"
"Oh, my God," Mary sobbed.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: MARGARET.
Such commendations as becomes a maid,
A virgin and his servant, say to him.
SUFFOLK.
Words sweetly placed and modestly directed.
But, madam, I must trouble you again;
No loving token to his majesty?
MARGARET.
Yes, my good lord, a pure unspotted heart,
Never yet taint with love, I send the king.
SUFFOLK.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: mourning, her maturer grace and her uncomplaining sorrow,
incontestably handsome, she presented herself as leading a life of
singular dignity and beauty. I had at first found a way to
persuade myself that I should soon get the better of the reserve
formulated, the week after the catastrophe in her reply to an
appeal as to which I was not unconscious that it might strike her
as mistimed. Certainly that reserve was something of a shock to me
- certainly it puzzled me the more I thought of it and even though
I tried to explain it (with moments of success) by an imputation of
exalted sentiments, of superstitious scruples, of a refinement of
loyalty. Certainly it added at the same time hugely to the price
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