| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: Old Mr. Bouncer coughed and
laughed; and Tommy Brock puffed
and grinned.
And Mr. Bouncer laughed and
coughed, and shut his eyes because
of the cabbage smoke ..........
When Flopsy and Benjamin came
back old Mr. Bouncer woke up.
Tommy Brock and all the young
rabbit babies had disappeared!
Mr. Bouncer would not confess
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: Royal. Marguerite was sure to be there. I was at the theatre by
seven. The boxes filled one after another, but Marguerite was not
there. I left the Palais Royal and went to all the theatres where
she was most often to be seen: to the Vaudeville, the Varietes,
the Opera Comique. She was nowhere.
Either my letter had troubled her too much for her to care to go
to the theatre, or she feared to come across me, and so wished to
avoid an explanation. So my vanity was whispering to me on the
boulevards, when I met Gaston, who asked me where I had been.
"At the Palais Royal."
"And I at the Opera," said he; "I expected to see you there."
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: plans to attack the city of Chios. It was agreed amongst them, that in
order to guage their numbers, every member of the conspiracy should
carry a reed. Eteonicus got wind of the design, but was at a loss how
to deal with it, considering the number of these reed-bearers. To make
an open attack upon them seemed dangerous. It would probably lead to a
rush to arms, in which the conspirators would seize the city and
commence hostilities, and, in the event of their success, everything
hitherto achieved would be lost. Or again, the destruction on his part
of many fellow-creatures and allies was a terrible alternative, which
would place the Spartans in an unenviable light with regard to the
rest of Hellas, and render the soldiers ill-disposed to the cause in
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