| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: He was particularly pleasant to the press-agent, Kenneth Escott; he took him
to lunch at the Athletic Club and had him at the house for dinner.
Like many of the cocksure young men who forage about cities in apparent
contentment and who express their cynicism in supercilious slang, Escott was
shy and lonely. His shrewd starveling face broadened with joy at dinner, and
he blurted, "Gee whillikins, Mrs. Babbitt, if you knew how good it is to have
home eats again!"
Escott and Verona liked each other. All evening they "talked about ideas."
They discovered that they were Radicals. True, they were sensible about it.
They agreed that all communists were criminals; that this vers libre was
tommy-rot; and that while there ought to be universal disarmament, of course
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: on which occasion she wore three towering ostrich feathers on
her head. The family never got over it; they were immediately
smitten with a passion for high life; set up a one-horse
carriage,
put a bit of gold lace round the errand boy's hat, and have been
the talk and detestation of the whole neighborhood ever since.
They could no longer be induced to play at Pope-Joan or blind-
man's-buff; they could endure no dances but quadrilles, which
nobody had ever heard of in Little Britain; and they took to
reading novels, talking bad French, and playing upon the piano.
Their brother, too, who had been articled to an attorney, set up
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: it, as I am. Oh! I must tell the truth. The doctor has some
hold over him. My father has done something dreadful; I don't
know what and I don't want to know, but if it came out it would
ruin my father, or worse, worse. I am the price of his silence.
On the day of our marriage he will destroy the proofs. If I
refuse to marry him, they will be produced and then--"
"It is difficult," I said.
"It is more than difficult, it is terrible. If you could see all
there is in my heart, you would know how terrible."
"I think I can see, Miss Heda. Don't say any more now. Give me
time to consider. In case of necessity come to me again, and be
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