| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: "have him baptized at once and do not speak of his danger to the
mother, or you will kill her."
The gesture of satisfaction which escaped the count when the child's
death was prophesied, suggested this speech to the bonesetter as the
best means of saving the child at the moment. Beauvouloir now hastened
to carry the infant back to its mother who had fainted, and he pointed
to her condition reprovingly, to warn the count of the results of his
violence. The countess had heard all; for in many of the great crises
of life the human organs acquire an otherwise unknown delicacy. But
the cries of the child, laid beside her on the bed, restored her to
life as if by magic; she fancied she heard the voices of angels, when,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Barney's opened it chanced that they were directed
straight upon the shiny glass of the picture. The light from
the window struck the glass in such a way as to transform
it into a mirror. The American's eyes were glued with horror
upon the reflection that he saw there--an old man swinging
a huge ax down upon his head.
It is an open question as to which of the two was the
most surprised at the cat-like swiftness of the movement
that carried Barney Custer out of that bed and landed him
in temporary safety upon the opposite side.
With a snarl the old man ran around the foot of the bed
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: already had time to notice that from one moment to the other his
small satiric face seemed to change its time of life. At this
moment it was infantine, yet it appeared also to be under the
influence of curious intuitions and knowledges. Pemberton rather
disliked precocity and was disappointed to find gleams of it in a
disciple not yet in his teens. Nevertheless he divined on the spot
that Morgan wouldn't prove a bore. He would prove on the contrary
a source of agitation. This idea held the young man, in spite of a
certain repulsion.
"You pompous little person! We're not extravagant!" Mrs. Moreen
gaily protested, making another unsuccessful attempt to draw the
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