| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: it counted somehow for help. He couldn't have spoken, the tone of
his voice would have scared him, and the common conceit or resource
of "whistling in the dark" (whether literally or figuratively) have
appeared basely vulgar; yet he liked none the less to hear himself
go, and when he had reached his first landing - taking it all with
no rush, but quite steadily - that stage of success drew from him a
gasp of relief.
The house, withal, seemed immense, the scale of space again
inordinate; the open rooms, to no one of which his eyes deflected,
gloomed in their shuttered state like mouths of caverns; only the
high skylight that formed the crown of the deep well created for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: habitation was erected in the neighborhood of Simon Ford's cottage:
this was for James Starr. The engineer had given
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himself body and soul to New Aberfoyle, and nothing but the most
imperative necessity ever caused him to leave the pit.
There, then, he lived in the midst of his mining world.
On the discovery of the new field, all the old colliers had hastened
to leave the plow and harrow, and résumé the pick and mattock.
Attracted by the certainty that work would never fail, allured by
the high wages which the prosperity of the mine enabled the company
to offer for labor, they deserted the open air for an underground life,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And I the rather wean me from despair,
For love of Edward's offspring in my womb.
This is it that makes me bridle passion
And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross;
Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear,
And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,
Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown
King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.
RIVERS.
But, madam, where is Warwick then become?
QUEEN ELIZABETH.
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