| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: been growing bashful, now handing her the cigarette case.] Here's
the cigarette case. You may k-k-keep it.
MAUD. [Looking at him, hesitates, then takes it.] I thank you--
er--Bob. I shall treasure it all my life. [He is very
embarrassed.] Why, I do believe you're bashful. What is the
matter?
FITZSIMMONS. [Stammering.] Why--I--you-- You are a girl--and--a-
-a--deuced pretty one.
MAUD. [Taking his arm, ready to start for door.] But you knew it
all along.
FITZSIMMONS. But it's somehow different now when you've got your
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: of waiting in the carriage, I entered the church myself to look
at it. The church of San Andrea was poor, small, and empty; I
believe that I found myself there almost alone. No work of art
attracted my attention; and I passed my eyes mechanically over
its interior without being arrested by any particular thought. I
can only remember an entirely black dog which went trotting and
turning before me as I mused. In an instant the dog had
disappeared, the whole church had vanished, I no longer saw
anything, . . . or more truly I saw, O my God, one thing alone.
"Heavens, how can I speak of it? Oh no! human words cannot
attain to expressing the inexpressible. Any description, however
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: no way to be despised, for they are, as I have said, the
declaration of divine remission.
39. It is most difficult, even for the very keenest
theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people
the abundance of pardons and [the need of] true contrition.
40. True contrition seeks and loves penalties, but liberal
pardons only relax penalties and cause them to be hated, or at
least, furnish an occasion [for hating them].
41. Apostolic pardons are to be preached with caution, lest
the people may falsely think them preferable to other good
works of love.
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