| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: Senate house, and found the Fathers sitting silent and unmoved
by their success? It is a sore thing to have laboured along
and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find
humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists
condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial
toleration for those who know little of stocks; literary
persons despise the unlettered; and people of all pursuits
combine to disparage those who have none.
But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is
not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking
against industry, but you can be sent to Coventry for speaking
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: he is growing old. I've wondered why he hasn't done more for
himself, with his gifts."
"He never will," replied the Chief. "He may win more fame - he may
still go on winning triumphs, but he will go on in a circle; he'll
never forge ahead as his capabilities deserve. Muller's peculiarity
is that his genius - for the man has undeniable genius - will always
make concessions to his heart just at the moment when he is about
to do something great - and his triumph is lost."
Horn looked up at his superior, whom, in spite of his good nature,
he knew to be a sharp, keen, capable police official. "I forgot
you have known Muller longer than the rest of us," he said. "What
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Public feeling ran unanimous and high. Prisoners who escaped from
the private gaol were not recaptured or not returned and Malietoa
hastened to build a new prison of his own, whither he conveyed, or
pretended to convey, the fugitives. In October 1885 a trenchant
state paper issued from the German consulate. Twenty prisoners,
the consul wrote, had now been at large for eight months from
Weber's prison. It was pretended they had since then completed
their term of punishment elsewhere. Dr. Stuebel did not seek to
conceal his incredulity; but he took ground beyond; he declared the
point irrelevant. The law was to be enforced. The men were
condemned to a certain period in Weber's prison; they had run away;
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