| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Then Procrustes' countenance changed, and his cheeks grew as
green as a lizard, and he felt for his sword in haste; but
Theseus leapt on him, and cried -
'Is this true, my host, or is it false?' and he clasped
Procrustes round waist and elbow, so that he could not draw
his sword.
'Is this true, my host, or is it false?' But Procrustes
answered never a word.
Then Theseus flung him from him, and lifted up his dreadful
club; and before Procrustes could strike him he had struck,
and felled him to the ground.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: advantages: a man should choose between them. I fear too, myself."
"And why?"
"We must not talk in this way. Mamma, do you not think that this
conversation is dangerous inasmuch as the contract is not yet signed?"
"It soon will be," said Paul.
"I should like to know what Achilles and Nestor are saying to each
other in the next room," said Natalie, nodding toward the door of the
little salon with a childlike expression of curiosity.
"They are talking of our children and our death and a lot of other
such trifles; they are counting our gold to see if we can keep five
horses in the stables. They are talking also of deeds of gift; but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: be afraid to trust you. Let's have a game or two of seven-up to-
night. That is, if you don't mind playing with a train-robber.'
"'I've told you,' says I, 'my oral sentiments, and there's no strings
to 'em.'
"While I was shuffling after the first hand, I asks Ogden, as if the
idea was a kind of a casualty, where he was from.
"'Oh,' says he, 'from the Mississippi Valley.'
"'That's a nice little place,' says I. 'I've often stopped over
there. But didn't you find the sheets a little damp and the food
poor? Now, I hail,' says I, 'from the Pacific Slope. Ever put up
there?'
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