| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: her and she took the greatest intimacy, the innocent intimacy
which was the only thing she could conceive, for granted.
She told me she did not know what had got into her aunt;
she had changed so quickly, she had got some idea. I replied
that she must find out what the idea was and then let me know;
we would go and have an ice together at Florian's, and she
should tell me while we listened to the band.
"Oh, it will take me a long time to find out!" she said, rather ruefully;
and she could promise me this satisfaction neither for that night nor for
the next. I was patient now, however, for I felt that I had only to wait;
and in fact at the end of the week, one lovely evening after dinner,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: your letter. It is not the hangman, but the criminal, that brings
dishonour on the house.
You belong, sir, to a sect - I believe my sect, and that in which
my ancestors laboured - which has enjoyed, and partly failed to
utilise, and exceptional advantage in the islands of Hawaii. The
first missionaries came; they found the land already self-purged of
its old and bloody faith; they were embraced, almost on their
arrival, with enthusiasm; what troubles they supported came far
more from whites than from Hawaiins; and to these last they stood
(in a rough figure) in the shoes of God. This is not the place to
enter into the degree or causes of their failure, such as it is.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: them, and the terms which suggested them. Calling Dr. Whewell to
his aid in 1833, he endeavoured to displace by others all terms
tainted by a foregone conclusion. His paper on Electro-chemical
Decomposition, received by the Royal Society on January 9, 1834,
opens with the proposal of a new terminology. He would avoid the
word 'current' if he could.[2] He does abandon the word 'poles' as
applied to the ends of a decomposing cell, because it suggests the
idea of attraction, substituting for it the perfectly natural term
Electrodes. He applied the term Electrolyte to every substance
which can be decomposed by the current, and the act of decomposition
he called Electrolysis. All these terms have become current in
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