| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: she said, with a little laugh. "Are none of my children looking after
you, Maggie?"
"Marriage," said Mrs. Hilbery, coming into the room, and nodding her
head once or twice, "I always say marriage is a school. And you don't
get the prizes unless you go to school. Charlotte has won all the
prizes," she added, giving her sister-in-law a little pat, which made
Lady Otway more uncomfortable still. She half laughed, muttered
something, and ended on a sigh.
"Aunt Charlotte was saying that it's no good being married unless you
submit to your husband," said Katharine, framing her aunt's words into
a far more definite shape than they had really worn; and when she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: may be personally obnoxious. My own ancestors were from England. My
personal relations with the Englishmen I have met have been very
pleasant. I can readily believe that there are no better people living,
but I feel so strongly on the subject, nationally--so bitterly opposed to
a continuance of England's sea control--so fearful that our people may be
lulled into a feeling of false security, that I cannot help trying to
combat, with every small means in my power, anything that seems to
propagate a dangerous friendship."
I received no dissenting letter superior to this. To the writer of it I
replied that I agreed with much that he said, but that even so it did not
in my opinion outweigh the reasons I had given (and shall now give more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: antagonist. The despair he felt at his daughter's disappearance,
was, in Dixon's phrase, such as would have melted the heart of a
whin stane, and he was so much exhausted by his feelings, and the
vain researches which he made to discover the track of the
ravishers, that a considerable time elapsed ere he reached home,
and communicated the alarm to his domestics.
All his conduct and gestures were those of a desperate man.
"Speak not to me, Sir Frederick," he said impatiently; "You are
no father--she was my child, an ungrateful one! I fear, but
still my child--my only child. Where is Miss Ilderton? she must
know something of this. It corresponds with what I was informed
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