| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: "swear to me that if you never meet him you will do nothing to injure
him. Can I trust your word as a nobleman for that?"
"What does all this mean?" said the count.
"If you will not swear, kill us now together!" cried the countess,
falling on her knees and pressing her child to her breast.
"Rise, madame. I give you my word as a man of honor to do nothing
against the life of that cursed child, provided he lives among the
rocks between the sea and the house, and never crosses my path. I will
give him that fisherman's house down there for his dwelling, and the
beach for a domain. But woe betide him if I ever find him beyond those
limits."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: of the jump his revolver-hand was above his head. Swiftly as the grip had
flashed about his legs, just as swiftly he brought the revolver down. He was
still in the air, his fall in process of completion, when he pulled the
trigger. The explosion was deafening in the confined space. The smoke filled
the hole so that he could see nothing. He struck the bottom on his back, and
like a cat's the pocket-miner's body was on top of him. Even as the miner's
body passed on top, the stranger crooked in his right arm to fire; and even in
that instant the miner, with a quick trust of elbow, struck his wrist. The
muzzle was thrown up and the bullet thudded into the dirt of the side of the
hole.
The next instant the stranger felt the miner's hand grip his wrist. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: wiping his brow, for these repeated hints began to tell upon him
cruelly.
'Very easy say Brown--Browndee--no' so easy after all!' cried
Michael. 'Easy say; anything's easy say, when you can say it.
What I don' like's total disappearance of an uncle. Not
businesslike.' And he wagged his head.
'It is all perfectly simple,' returned Morris, with laborious
calm. 'There is no mystery. He stays at Browndean, where he got a
shake in the accident.'
'Ah!' said Michael, 'got devil of a shake!'
'Why do you say that?' cried Morris sharply.
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