| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: it, what was it? I must have stayed there so long." He could but
wonder at the depth and the duration of his swoon.
"Since last night?" she asked with a shade of fear for her possible
indiscretion.
"Since this morning - it must have been: the cold dim dawn of to-
day. Where have I been," he vaguely wailed, "where have I been?"
He felt her hold him close, and it was as if this helped him now to
make in all security his mild moan. "What a long dark day!"
All in her tenderness she had waited a moment. "In the cold dim
dawn?" she quavered.
But he had already gone on piecing together the parts of the whole
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: of the road--a situation to which three or four steps of her own
had unmistakeably contributed--and then passing not again to the
side on which she had arrived, but back toward the portal of Park
Chambers.
"I didn't know you at first. Are you taking a walk?"
"Ah I don't take walks at night! I'm going home after my work."
"Oh!"
That was practically what they had meanwhile smiled out, and his
exclamation to which for a minute he appeared to have nothing to
add, left them face to face and in just such an attitude as, for
his part, he might have worn had he been wondering if he could
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: Till with her own white fleece her voice controll'd
Entombs her outcry in her lips' sweet fold:
For with the nightly linen that she wears
He pens her piteous clamours in her head;
Cooling his hot face in the chastest tears
That ever modest eyes with sorrow shed.
O, that prone lust should stain so pure a bed!
The spots whereof could weeping purify,
Her tears should drop on them perpetually.
But she hath lost a dearer thing than life,
And he hath won what he would lose again.
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