| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: "Spiders," he muttered over and over again. "Spiders! Well, well. . . .
The next time I must spin a web."
4. THE TRUTH ABOUT PYECRAFT
He sits not a dozen yards away. If I glance over my shoulder
I can see him. And if I catch his eye--and usually I catch his eye--
it meets me with an expression.
It is mainly an imploring look--and yet with suspicion in it.
Confound his suspicion! If I wanted to tell on him I should have told
long ago. I don't tell and I don't tell, and he ought to feel at his
ease. As if anything so gross and fat as he could feel at ease! Who
would believe me if I did tell?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: become unhinged at Ballarat.'
'If you come to that, Pitman,' said Michael, 'the advertiser may
be Queen Victoria, fired with the desire to make a duke of you. I
put it to yourself if that's probable; and yet it's not against
the laws of nature. But we sit here to consider probabilities;
and with your genteel permission, I eliminate her Majesty and
Uncle Tim on the threshold. To proceed, we have your second idea,
that this has some connection with the statue. Possible; but in
that case who is the advertiser? Not Ricardi, for he knows your
address; not the person who got the box, for he doesn't know your
name. The vanman, I hear you suggest, in a lucid interval. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: with the interest of the community. The nation, taken as a
whole, will be less brilliant, less glorious, and perhaps less
strong; but the majority of the citizens will enjoy a greater
degree of prosperity, and the people will remain quiet, not
because it despairs of amelioration, but because it is conscious
of the advantages of its condition. If all the consequences of
this state of things were not good or useful, society would at
least have appropriated all such as were useful and good; and
having once and for ever renounced the social advantages of
aristocracy, mankind would enter into possession of all the
benefits which democracy can afford.
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