| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: a kind of reason--nothing much, you know "
"I beg your pardon for cross-examining you."
"No trouble," said Mr. Hoopdriver. "Only I can't very well--I
leave it to you, you know. I don't want to make any mystery of
it, so far as that goes." Should he plunge boldly and be a
barrister? That anyhow was something pretty good. But she might
know about barristry.
"I think I could guess what you are."
"Well--guess," said Mr. Hoopdriver.
"You come from one of the colonies?"
"Dear me!" said Mr. Hoopdriver, veering round to the new wind.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: that this meagre and defective little person, with the cock of her
hat and the flutter of her crape, with her eternal idleness, her
eternal happiness, her absence of moods and mysteries and the
pretty presentation of her feet, which especially now in the
supported slope of her posture occupied with their imperceptibility
so much of the foreground--I was reminded anew, I say, how our
young lady dazzled by some art that the enumeration of her merits
didn't explain and that the mention of her lapses didn't affect.
Where she was amiss nothing counted, and where she was right
everything did. I say she was wanting in mystery, but that after
all was her secret. This happened to be my first chance of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: driving up to the top.
Poor little things! How hard on them! The big fish at them from
below, and the birds at them from above. And what is that?
Thousands of fish leaping out of the water, scrambling over each
other's backs. What a curious soft rushing roaring noise they
make!
Aha! The eaters are going to be eaten in turn. Those are the
mackerel themselves; and I suspect they see Mr. Whale, and are
scrambling out of the way as fast as they can, lest he should
swallow them down, a dozen at a time. Look out sharp for him now.
I hope he will not come very near.
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