| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: found Nance alone; and, laying by some of his reserve, talked
before her rather than to her of his destiny, character and
hopes. To Nance these interviews were but a doubtful
privilege. At times he would seem to take a pleasure in her
presence, to consult her gravely, to hear and to discuss her
counsels; at times even, but these were rare and brief, he
would talk of herself, praise the qualities that she
possessed, touch indulgently on her defects, and lend her
books to read and even examine her upon her reading; but far
more often he would fall into a half unconsciousness, put her
a question and then answer it himself, drop into the veiled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: public, when they pay. Ten copecks a word, whenever
you like, sir!"
Michael was about to reply to this strange clerk that he
had no message to send, that he only implored a little bread
and water, when the door of the house was again thrown
open.
Thinking that it was invaded by Tartars, Michael made
ready to leap out of the window, when two men only en-
tered the room who had nothing of the Tartar soldier about
them. One of them held a dispatch, written in pencil, in
his hand, and, passing the other, he hurried up to the wicket
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: Now it was after this event that I saw Zikali and begged him to
let us go. I found him triumphant and yet strangely disturbed
and, as I thought, more apprehensive than I had ever seen him.
"So, Zikali," I said, "if what I hear is true, you have had your
way and destroyed the Zulu people. Now you should be happy."
"Is man ever happy, Macumazahn, when he has gained that which he
sought for years? The two out there sigh and are sad because
they cannot be married after their own white fashion, though what
there is to keep them apart I do not know. Well, in time they
will be married, only to find that they are not so happy as they
thought they would be. Oh! a day will come when they will talk
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