| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: could dissimulate to perfection, and he soon made progress in the ways
of ingratitude, for he felt that he must kill Marcas, not to be killed
by him. These two men, apparently so united, hated each other as soon
as one had deceived the other.
The politician was made one of a ministry; Marcas remained in the
opposition to hinder his man from being attacked; nay, by skilful
tactics he won him the applause of the opposition. To excuse himself
for not rewarding his subaltern, the chief pointed out the
impossibility of finding a place suddenly for a man on the other side,
without a great deal of manoeuvring. Marcas had hoped confidently for
a place to enable him to marry, and thus acquire the qualification he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: his umbrella and juggled his hat and coat on to a massive
mahogany stand. "What name, Sir?" she asked, holding open the
door of the consulting room.
"Hardy," said the gentleman, and then yielding it reluctantly
with its distasteful three-year-old honour, "Sir Richmond
Hardy."
The door closed softly behind him and he found himself in
undivided possession of the large indifferent apartment in
which the nervous and mental troubles of the outer world
eddied for a time on their way to the distinguished
specialist. A bowl of daffodils, a handsome bookcase
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: sed etiam tela nostros deficerent, atque hostes acrius instarent
languidioribusque nostris vallum scindere et fossas complere coepissent,
resque esset iam ad extremum perducta casum, P. Sextius Baculus, primi
pili centurio, quem Nervico proelio compluribus confectum vulneribus
diximus, et item C. Volusenus, tribunus militum, vir et consilii magni et
virtutis, ad Galbam accurrunt atque unam esse spem salutis docent, si
eruptione facta extremum auxilium experirentur. Itaque convocatis
centurionibus celeriter milites certiores facit, paulisper intermitterent
proelium ac tantum modo tela missa exciperent seque ex labore reficerent,
post dato signo ex castris erumperent, atque omnem spem salutis in virtute
ponerent.
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