| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: you to decisive acts. Your mind, your reason resists. "Give
me time," it says. "They clamour at you with treats, crowds,
shows, theatres, all sorts of things; lovers buzz at you,
each trying to fix you part of his life when you are trying
to get clear to live a little of your own." Her father had
had one merit at any rate. He had been jealous of her lovers
and very ready to interfere.
"I wanted a lover to love," she said. "Every girl of course
wants that. I wanted to be tremendously excited. . . . And at
the same time I dreaded the enormous interference. . . .
"I wasn't temperamentally a cold girl. Men interested and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: me too old to résumé my duties of overman?"
"No, Simon, no indeed! You wear better than I do, my old friend!"
"And, sir, you shall be our viewer again. May the new working
last for many years, and pray Heaven I shall have the consolation
of dying without seeing the end of it!"
The old miner was overflowing with joy. James Starr fully
entered into it; but he let Ford rave for them both.
Harry alone remained thoughtful. To his memory recurred
the succession of singular, inexplicable circumstances
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attending the discovery of the new bed. It made him uneasy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: "I say so," declared Bertie. "When do you begin to remember again?"
"After I got in again at the gate. Why did I get out?"
"You fell out, man."
Billy was incredulous.
"You did. You tore your clothes wide open."
Billy, looking at his trousers, did not see it.
"Rise, and I'll show you," said Bertie.
"Goodness gracious!" said Billy.
Thus discoursing, they reached Harvard Square. Not your Harvard Square,
gentle reader, that place populous with careless youths and careful
maidens and reticent persons with books, but one of sleeping windows and
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