| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: from the book how Double Demon patience is played; and suggested
that if they sat down and worked it out together it would fill
up the time nicely before dinner.
Chapter X
Among the promises which Mrs. Ambrose had made her niece should she
stay was a room cut off from the rest of the house, large, private--
a room in which she could play, read, think, defy the world, a fortress
as well as a sanctuary. Rooms, she knew, became more like worlds
than rooms at the age of twenty-four. Her judgment was correct,
and when she shut the door Rachel entered an enchanted place,
where the poets sang and things fell into their right proportions.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: MRS. ERLYNNE. [Shrugging her shoulders.] Don't use ugly words,
Windermere. They are vulgar. I saw my chance, it is true, and
took it.
LORD WINDERMERE. Yes, you took it - and spoiled it all last night
by being found out.
MRS. ERLYNNE. [With a strange smile.] You are quite right, I
spoiled it all last night.
LORD WINDERMERE. And as for your blunder in taking my wife's fan
from here and then leaving it about in Darlington's rooms, it is
unpardonable. I can't bear the sight of it now. I shall never let
my wife use it again. The thing is soiled for me. You should have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: Company upon the corner.
"It's the letter I got with the manuscript of the novel when they
sent it back," he explained.
"What did they say?"
"Oh, the usual thing. I haven't read it yet. Here's what they
say." He opened it and read:
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