| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: "That's perfectly true. I only wanted to be clear as to whether
you have repeated to her what I told you the other night."
"What you told me?"
"About Jeffrey Aspern--that I am looking for materials."
"If I had told her do you think she would have sent for you?"
"That's exactly what I want to know. If she wants to keep
him to herself she might have sent for me to tell me so."
"She won't speak of him," said Miss Tita. Then as she opened the door
she added in a lower tone, "I have told her nothing."
The old woman was sitting in the same place in which I had seen her last,
in the same position, with the same mystifying bandage over her eyes.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: In these few hours of light I lift my head;
Life is my lover -- I shall leave the dead
If there is any way to baffle death.
"The Dreams of My Heart"
The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,
Nothing stays with me long,
But I have had from a child
The deep solace of song;
If that should ever leave me,
Let me find death and stay
With things whose tunes are played out and forgotten
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: indeed connected in my mind with some nightmare encounters
over Euclid, and the Latin Grammar. These were known as
Sam's lessons. He was supposed to be the victim and the
sufferer; but here there must have been some misconception,
for whereas I generally retired to bed after one of these
engagements, he was no sooner set free than he dashed up to
the Chinaman's house, where he had installed a printing
press, that great element of civilization, and the sound of
his labours would be faintly audible about the canyon half
the day.
To walk at all was a laborious business; the foot sank and
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