| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: The victories of Bonaparte have been without results but his road
over the Simplon will long be the communication betwixt peaceful
countries, who will apply to the ends of commerce and friendly
intercourse that gigantic work, which was formed for the
ambitious purpose of warlike invasion.
While we were thus stealing along, we gradually turned round the
shoulder of Ben Cruachan, and descending the course of the
foaming and rapid Awe, left behind us the expanse of the majestic
lake which gives birth to that impetuous river. The rocks and
precipices which stooped down perpendicularly on our path on the
right hand exhibited a few remains of the wood which once clothed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: and capping, the `Do me the honor--', the `I have a
small petition.' Nothing conquers like conquering!''
``He had long patience.''
``Aye. Well, he is at height now. But he has got with
him the old disastrous seeds.--Fifteen hundred men, and
among them quite a plenty like Gutierrez and Escobedo!
But there are good men, too, and a great lot of romantical
daredevils. No pressing this time! We might have brought
five thousand could the ships have held them. `Come to the
Indies and make your fortune!'--`Aye, that is my desire!' ''
I said, ``I am looking now at a romantical daredevil
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: "high-balls."
I gave him a lead. "The worst of it is that a girl who would like to
behave herself decently finds that propriety puts her out of the running.
The men flock off to the other kind."
He was following me with watching eyes.
"And you know," I continued, "what an anxious Newport parent does on
finding her girl on the brink of being a failure."
"I can imagine," he answered, "that she scolds her like the dickens."
"Oh, nothing so ineffectual! She makes her keep up with the others, you
know. Makes her do things she'd rather not do."
"High-balls, you mean?"
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