| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: of various nice-looking people who passed that way, and to whom
a distinguished, strikingly-dressed woman with a foreign air,
exclaiming upon the beauties of nature on a Boston street corner
in the French tongue, could not be an object of indifference.
Eugenia's spirits rose. She surrendered herself to a certain
tranquil gayety. If she had come to seek her fortune,
it seemed to her that her fortune would be easy to find.
There was a promise of it in the gorgeous purity of the western sky;
there was an intimation in the mild, unimpertinent gaze
of the passers of a certain natural facility in things.
"You will not go back to Silberstadt, eh?" asked Felix.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: inhale him in slow draughts and let him sink all the way in. They
would scarce have got so wound up, I think, if they hadn't been in
love: poor Vereker's inner meaning gave them endless occasion to
put and to keep their young heads together. None the less it
represented the kind of problem for which Corvick had a special
aptitude, drew out the particular pointed patience of which, had he
lived, he would have given more striking and, it is to be hoped,
more fruitful examples. He at least was, in Vereker's words, a
little demon of subtlety. We had begun by disputing, but I soon
saw that without my stirring a finger his infatuation would have
its bad hours. He would bound off on false scents as I had done -
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: STRANGER: They both appear to me to be hunters.
THEAETETUS: How the Sophist? Of the other we have spoken.
STRANGER: You remember our division of hunting, into hunting after
swimming animals and land animals?
THEAETETUS: Yes.
STRANGER: And you remember that we subdivided the swimming and left the
land animals, saying that there were many kinds of them?
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
STRANGER: Thus far, then, the Sophist and the angler, starting from the
art of acquiring, take the same road?
THEAETETUS: So it would appear.
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