| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: that no man would believe the noblesse, the riches ne the multitude
of folk that be in his court, but he had seen it; for it is not
there as it is here. For the lords here have folk of certain
number as they may suffice; but the great Chan hath every day folk
at his costage and expense as without number. But the ordinance,
ne the expenses in meat and drink, ne the honesty, ne the
cleanness, is not so arrayed there as it is here; for all the
commons there eat without cloth upon their knees, and they eat all
manner of flesh and little of bread, and after meat they wipe their
hands upon their skirts, and they eat not but once a day. But the
estate of lords is full great, and rich and noble.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: well: has your conscience nothing to say to
you?"
"Mr. Pechorin!" exclaimed the captain of
dragoons. "Allow me to point out that you are
not here to preach. . . Let us lose no time, in
case anyone should ride through the gorge and
we should be seen."
"Very well. Doctor, come here!"
The doctor came up to me. Poor doctor! He
was paler than Grushnitski had been ten minutes
before.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: at Johannesburg and told of these things. White watched him from an
armchair. And as he listened he noted again the intensification of
Benham's face, the darkness under his brows, the pallor of his skin,
the touch of red in his eyes. For there was still that red gleam in
Benham's eyes; it shone when he looked out of a darkness into a
light. And he sat forward with his arms folded under him, or moved
his long lean hand about over the things on the table.
"You see," he said, "this is a sort of horror in my mind. Things
like this stick in my mind. I am always seeing Prothero now, and it
will take years to get this scar off my memory again. Once before--
about a horse, I had the same kind of distress. And it makes me
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