| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Vague, shapeless hints at projects rose in his brain as he
looked at her.
"I'm afraid you think my brother has odd notions
of entertaining his guests," she remarked to him,
over her shoulder. The other ladies had not joined them.
"Oh, I'm all right," he protested cordially. "I should
hate to have him put himself out in the slightest."
Upon consideration he added: "I suppose he has given up
the idea of shooting to-day."
"I think not, "she answered." The keeper was about this morning,
that is--and he doesn't often come unless they are to go
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: This was what I had hoped to make known by the treatise I had written, and
so clearly to exhibit the advantage that would thence accrue to the public,
as to induce all who have the common good of man at heart, that is, all who
are virtuous in truth, and not merely in appearance, or according to opinion,
as well to communicate to me the experiments they had already made, as to
assist me in those that remain to be made.
But since that time other reasons have occurred to me, by which I have
been led to change my opinion, and to think that I ought indeed to go on
committing to writing all the results which I deemed of any moment, as
soon as I should have tested their truth, and to bestow the same care upon
them as I would have done had it been my design to publish them. This
Reason Discourse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Their actual advent I do not recollect, for when I had heard that
they were to arrive on Saturday night, I had made a point of
going away for the week-end.
On my return I avoided the kitchen garden assiduously for several
days, but after a while I began to get used to the presence of
the bees, and their old straw home- I could see it from my
bedroom- looked rather pretty and comfortable.
Then Daphne, who never will leave ill alone, had announced that
they must be moved into a new hive.
In vain I characterized her project as impious, wanton, and
indecent in turn.
The Brother of Daphne |
