| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "Enter, sir," said he.
The young man appeared on the threshold of the minister's
closet, in one hand holding his hat, in the other the
letter. Mazarin rose. "Have you, sir," asked he, "a letter
accrediting you to me?"
"There it is, my lord," said the young man.
Mazarin took the letter and read it thus:
"Mr. Mordaunt, one of my secretaries, will remit this letter
of introduction to His Eminence, the Cardinal Mazarin, in
Paris. He is also the bearer of a second confidential
epistle for his eminence.
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: The good that ye did for the sake of men in little earth so lone!"
And the naked soul of Tomlinson grew white as a rain-washed bone.
"O I have a friend on earth," he said, "that was my priest and guide,
And well would he answer all for me if he were by my side."
-- "For that ye strove in neighbour-love it shall be written fair,
But now ye wait at Heaven's Gate and not in Berkeley Square:
Though we called your friend from his bed this night,
he could not speak for you,
For the race is run by one and one and never by two and two."
Then Tomlinson looked up and down, and little gain was there,
For the naked stars grinned overhead, and he saw that his soul was bare:
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "Ah, if it were not for that!" said Bessie Alden with a smile.
Mrs. Westgate had a good many more friends in London than
she pretended, and before long she had renewed acquaintance
with most of them. Their hospitality was extreme, so that,
one thing leading to another, she began, as the phrase is, to go out.
Bessie Alden, in this way, saw something of what she found
it a great satisfaction to call to herself English society.
She went to balls and danced, she went to dinners and talked,
she went to concerts and listened (at concerts Bessie
always listened), she went to exhibitions and wondered.
Her enjoyment was keen and her curiosity insatiable, and,
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