| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: either the fiddle or the banjo; you were never an aesthete; you
never contributed to -'S JOURNAL; your name is not Jabez Balfour;
you are totally unconnected with the Army and Navy departments; I
understand you to have lived within your income - why, cheer up!
here are many legitimate causes of congratulation. I seem to be
writing an obituary notice. ABSIT OMEN! But I feel very sure that
these considerations will have done you more good than medicine.
By the by, did you ever play piquet? I have fallen a victim to
this debilitating game. It is supposed to be scientific; God save
the mark, what self-deceivers men are! It is distinctly less so
than cribbage. But how fascinating! There is such material
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: To be thy partner in this shameful doom.'
This said, he sets his foot upon the light,
For light and lust are deadly enemies;
Shame folded up in blind concealing night,
When most unseen, then most doth tyrannize.
The wolf hath seiz'd his prey, the poor lamb cries;
Till with her own white fleece her voice controll'd
Entombs her outcry in her lips' sweet fold:
For with the nightly linen that she wears
He pens her piteous clamours in her head;
Cooling his hot face in the chastest tears
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: his intercourse with the chief justice, as well as from the terms
used in the interview, men judged otherwise. It was proposed that
A should simulate a renewal of the friendship, decoy Mataafa to a
suitable place, and have him there arrested. What should follow in
those days of violent speech was at the least disputable; and the
proposal was of course refused. "You do not understand," was the
base rejoinder. "YOU will have no discredit. The Germans are to
take the blame of the arrest." Of course, upon the testimony of a
gentleman so depraved, it were unfair to hang a dog; and both the
Germans and the chief justice must be held innocent. But the chief
justice has shown that he can himself be led, by his animosity
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