| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: "Tell her," said Mr. Stanley, with an imperious gesture, "to come
in here."
Part 2
Miss Stanley emerged from the study and stood watching Ann
Veronica descend.
The girl was flushed with excitement, bright-eyed, and braced for
a struggle; her aunt had never seen her looking so fine or so
pretty. Her fancy dress, save for the green-gray stockings, the
pseudo-Turkish slippers, and baggy silk trousered ends natural to
a Corsair's bride, was hidden in a large black-silk-hooded
opera-cloak. Beneath the hood it was evident that her rebellious
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: it to any one's care?"
"Of course I have."
"And no doubt to a person of experience as a trainer, a
physician?"
"Surely."
"And these things the best you possess, or have you anything
more precious?"
"What can you mean?"
"I mean that which employs these; which weights all things;
which takes counsel and resolve."
"Oh, you mean the soul."
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: even feel the moxas they used formerly to apply to relieve it; but
Monsieur Brousson, who is now his physician, has forbidden that
remedy, declaring that the trouble is a nervous affection, an
inflammation of the nerves, for which leeches should be applied to the
neck, and opium to the head. As a result, the attacks are not so
frequent; they appear now only about once a year, and always late in
the autumn. When he recovers, Taillefer says repeatedly that he would
far rather die than endure such torture."
"Then he must suffer terribly!" said a broker, considered a wit, who
was present.
"Oh," continued the mistress of the house, "last year he nearly died
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