| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: vessel or boat must have been wrecked upon the rock during the
night; and it seemed probable that the rock might be strewed
with dead bodies, a spectacle which could not fail to deter
the artificers from returning so freely to their work. In the
midst of these reveries the boat took the ground at an
improper landing-place; but, without waiting to push her off,
he leapt upon the rock, and making his way hastily to the spot
which had privately given him alarm, he had the satisfaction
to ascertain that he had only been deceived by the peculiar
situation and aspect of the smith's anvil and block, which
very completely represented the appearance of a lifeless body
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: Nor close, nor secret ways to work his feat
He longer sought, nor hid him from the throng;
But entered through the gates, broad, royal, great,
And oft he asked, and answered oft among,
In questions wise, in answers short and sly;
Bold was his look, eyes quick, front lifted high:
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On every side he pried here and there,
And marked each way, each passage and each tent:
The knights he notes, their steeds, and arms they bear,
Their names, their armor, and their government;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: "'They are a lead-pipe cinch,' I immediately answered; and he slapped me
on the knee."
"'That's what I think!' he cried. 'Anyhow, I have taken 20,000 for
mother. Do what you like.'"
"'Oh well,' said I, delighted at this confidence, I think I can afford to
risk what you are willing to risk for your mother, Mrs. Beverly. Where is
Petunia, did you say?'"
"He pulled down a roller map on the wall as you draw down a window-blind,
and again I listened to statements that churned in my brain. Petunia was
a new resort on the sea coast of New Hampshire. One railway system did
already connect it with both Portsmouth and Portland, but it was not a
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