| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: closed eyes of dead women could still live - how they could open
again, in a quiet lamplit room, long after they had looked their
last. They had looks that survived - had them as great poets had
quoted lines.
The newspaper lay by his chair - the thing that came in the
afternoon and the servants thought one wanted; without sense for
what was in it he had mechanically unfolded and then dropped it.
Before he went to bed he took it up, and this time, at the top of a
paragraph, he was caught by five words that made him start. He
stood staring, before the fire, at the "Death of Sir Acton Hague,
K.C.B.," the man who ten years earlier had been the nearest of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: but as to the means of adjusting the relations between
different industries, they are not very clear. They
are anti-militarist because they are anti-State, and
because French troops have often been employed
against them in strikes; also because they are
internationalists, who believe that the sole interest of the
working man everywhere is to free himself from the
tyranny of the capitalist. Their outlook on life is
the very reverse of pacifist, but they oppose wars
between States on the ground that these are not
fought for objects that in any way concern the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: I've tried to do?" she asked.
"Why, wasn't that exactly what I dashed over from my door just now
to thank you for?"
"Yes; so you said."
"And don't you believe it?"
She looked down a moment at his hand, which continued to cover her
own; whereupon he presently drew it back, rather restlessly folding
his arms. Without answering his question she went on: "Have you
ever spoken of me?"
"Spoken of you?"
"Of my being there--of my knowing, and that sort of thing."
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