| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: splinters of china. What had happened was plain to me, for not
two minutes before I had placed my little case on the table near
the window, and the table, tilting up, had deposited it upon the
floor on precisely the identical spot. In exactly the same way,
Mrs. Inglethorp had laid down her cup of coffee on reaching her
room the night before, and the treacherous table had played her
the same trick.
"What happened next is mere guess work on my part, but I should
say that Mrs. Inglethorp picked up the broken cup and placed it
on the table by the bed. Feeling in need of a stimulant of some
kind, she heated up her coco, and drank it off then and there.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: "I see," said he, "ye all have had to do with it. It is as my
Lord of Alban sayeth; ye are his enemies, and ye are my enemies
as well. In this I do smell a vile plot. I cannot undo what I
have done, and since I have made this young man a knight with
mine own hands, I cannot deny that he is fit to challenge my Lord
of Alban. Ne'theless, the High Court of Chivalry shall adjudge
this case. Meantime," said he, turning to the Earl Marshal, who
was present, "I give thee this attainted Lord in charge. Convey
him presently to the Tower, and let him abide our pleasure there.
Also, thou mayst take up yon gage, and keep it till it is
redeemed according to our pleasure."
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: every winter to Hope Springs and I couldn't have been more
anxious about it if she had been my own sister.
Well, as I say, it all began the very day the old doctor died.
He stamped out to the spring-house with the morning paper about
nine o'clock, and the wedding seemed to be all off. The paper
said the emperor had definitely refused his consent and had
sent the prince, who was his cousin, for a Japanese cruise,
while the Jennings family was going to Mexico in their private
car. The old doctor was indignant, and I remember how he tramped
up and down the spring-house, muttering that the girl had had a
lucky escape, and what did the emperor expect if beauty and youth
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