| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: ``He was of the best when he had one! I've beard old
Captain Ruy tell--''
``Maybe he wasn't crazy in those days, but he's crazy
now!''
That was Fernando. I think it was from him that certain
of the crew took the word ``crazy.'' They used it
until one would think that for pure variety's sake they
would find another!
The sixth day from Palos there lifted from sea the peak
of Teneriffe.
This day, passing on some errand the open door of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: he turned as cold as the stone beneath him. Everything fell
together, confessed, explained, overwhelmed; leaving him most of
all stupefied at the blindness he had cherished. The fate he had
been marked for he had met with a vengeance--he had emptied the cup
to the lees; he had been the man of his time, THE man, to whom
nothing on earth was to have happened. That was the rare stroke--
that was his visitation. So he saw it, as we say, in pale horror,
while the pieces fitted and fitted. So SHE had seen it while he
didn't, and so she served at this hour to drive the truth home. It
was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had
waited the wait was itself his portion. This the companion of his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: yours then, not even your mother. All that remains for you to do will
be to go out, poor orphan children, God knows where. I have made
Annette's future secure. She will have an annuity of a hundred crowns,
and she will stay at Tours no doubt. But what will you do for yourself
and your brother?"
She raised herself, and looked at the brave child, standing by her
bedside. There were drops of perspiration on his forehead, he was pale
with emotion, and his eyes were dim with tears.
"I have thought it over, mother," he answered in a deep voice. "I will
take Marie to the school here in Tours. I will give ten thousand
francs to our old Annette, and ask her to take care of them, and to
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