| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: however, was not at home, so that he turned rather dejectedly from
the door. His movement brought him face to face with a gentleman
just approaching it and recognised on another glance as Miss
Fancourt's father. Paul saluted this personage, and the General
returned the greeting with his customary good manner - a manner so
good, however, that you could never tell whether it meant he placed
you. The disappointed caller felt the impulse to address him;
then, hesitating, became both aware of having no particular remark
to make, and convinced that though the old soldier remembered him
he remembered him wrong. He therefore went his way without
computing the irresistible effect his own evident recognition would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: traveling man's dyspepsia, brought on by years of small-town
hotel food.
"So you've sold out."
"Yes. Over a month ago."
"H'm. That was a nice little business you had there. Your
ma built it up herself. There was a woman! Gosh!
Discounted her bills, even during the panic."
Fanny smiled a reflective little smile. "That line is a
complete characterization of my mother. Her life was a
series of panics. But she never lost her head. And she
always discounted."
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a
riddling Sphinx, whose shallow secret may be guessed and revealed
by one whose feet are wounded and who knows not his name. Rather,
he will look upon Art as a goddess whose mystery it is his province
to intensify, and whose majesty his privilege to make more
marvellous in the eyes of men.
And here, Ernest, this strange thing happens. The critic will
indeed be an interpreter, but he will not be an interpreter in the
sense of one who simply repeats in another form a message that has
been put into his lips to say. For, just as it is only by contact
with the art of foreign nations that the art of a country gains
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