| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: town, they happily found a breach in the inclosure.
The road to Irkutsk was the only one which penetrated
towards the east. It could not be mistaken. It was pos-
sible that on the morrow, after some hours of carousal, the
scouts of the Emir, once more scattering over the steppes,
might cut off all communication. It was of the greatest
importance therefore to get in advance of them. How
could Nadia bear the fatigues of that night, from the l6th
to the 17th of August? How could she have found
strength for so long a stage? How could her feet, bleed-
ing under that forced march, have carried her thither? It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: habit. Christopher tramples on everything in his
path, and he always has. He tramples on poor Myrtle."
At that Myrtle laughed. "I don't think I look
trampled on," said she; and she certainly did not.
Pink and white and plump was Myrtle, although she
had, to a discerning eye, an expression which denoted
extreme nervousness.
This morning of spring, when her husband sat
doing nothing, she wore this nervous expression. Her
blue eyes looked dark and keen; her forehead was
wrinkled; her rosy mouth was set. Myrtle and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: He seated himself again to his cigarettes. Though he had said it, he
scarcely believed Charleroi would entertain company that night. For
the first time in history the invitation of a Charles had been
ignored. So simple in courtesy and honour was Grandemont, and,
perhaps, so serenely confident in the prestige of his name, that the
most likely reasons for the vacant board did not occur to him.
Charleroi stood by a road travelled daily by people from those
plantations whither his invitations had gone. No doubt even on the day
before the sudden reanimation of the old house they had driven past
and observed the evidences of long desertion and decay. They had
looked at the corpse of Charleroi and then at Grandemont's
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