| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: HE TO DID NOT UNDERSTAND ME, AND NEVER WOULD. To him I was but
material, the stuff that plays are made of!
And now we know that he never could know,
And did not understand.
Kipling.
Ignoring Jane's observation that the tickets had cost two dollars
each, I gathered up the scattered Skeins of my life together, and fled.
CHAPTER III
HER DIARY: BEING THE DAILY JOURNAL OF THE SUB-DEB
JANUARY 1st. I have today recieved this dairy from home, having
come back a few days early to make up a French Condition.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: man, very well dressed, led up to the counter and remain a long
while in consultation with the negro. The pair looked so ill-
assorted, and the awe with which the drinkers fell back and left
them in the midst of an impromptu privacy was so unusual in
such a place, that I turned to my next neighbour with a
question. He told me the blind man was a distinguished party
boss, called by some the King of San Francisco, but perhaps
better known by his picturesque Chinese nickname of the Blind
White Devil. "The Lambs must be wanted pretty bad, I guess,"
my informant added. I have here a sketch of the Blind White
Devil leaning on the counter; on the next page, and taken the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: deprecari. Haec tamen dicere venisse invitos, eiectos domo; si suam
gratiam Romani velint, posse iis utiles esse amicos; vel sibi agros
attribuant vel patiantur eos tenere quos armis possederint: sese unis
Suebis concedere, quibus ne di quidem immortales pares esse possint;
reliquum quidem in terris esse neminem quem non superare possint.
Ad haec Caesar quae visum est respondit; sed exitus fuit orationis:
sibi nullam cum iis amicitiam esse posse, si in Gallia remanerent; neque
verum esse, qui suos fines tueri non potuerint alienos occupare; neque
ullos in Gallia vacare agros qui dari tantae praesertim multitudini sine
iniuria possint; sed licere, si velint, in Ubiorum finibus considere,
quorum sint legati apud se et de Sueborum iniuriis querantur et a se
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