| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: about to take his degree as licentiate, preparatory to being called to
the Bar. Monsieur and Madame Minoret-Levrault--for behind our colossus
every one will perceive a woman without whom this signal good-fortune
would have been impossible--left their son free to choose his own
career; he might be a notary in Paris, king's-attorney in some
district, collector of customs no matter where, broker, or post
master, as he pleased. What fancy of his could they ever refuse him?
to what position of life might he not aspire as the son of a man about
whom the whole countryside, from Montargis to Essonne, was in the
habit of saying, "Pere Minoret doesn't even know how rich he is"?
This saying had obtained fresh force about four years before this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: daughter of a King, and my father is aged and alone.'
But the young Fisherman answered, 'I will not let thee go save thou
makest me a promise that whenever I call thee, thou wilt come and
sing to me, for the fish delight to listen to the song of the Sea-
folk, and so shall my nets be full.'
'Wilt thou in very truth let me go, if I promise thee this?' cried
the Mermaid.
'In very truth I will let thee go,' said the young Fisherman.
So she made him the promise he desired, and sware it by the oath of
the Sea-folk. And he loosened his arms from about her, and she
sank down into the water, trembling with a strange fear.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: pipe of tobacco.
" Tis the turn of yonder old gentleman," said the Soldier who
cheated the Devil, and he pointed with the stem of his pipe to
the Fisherman who unbottled the Genie that King Solomon had
corked up and thrown into the sea. "Every one else hath told a
story, and now it is his turn."
"I will not deny, my friend, that what you say is true, and that
it is my turn," said the Fisherman. "Nor will I deny that I have
already a story in my mind. It is," said he, "about a certain
prince, and of how he went through many and one adventures, and
at last discovered that which is--
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