| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: annoyance, because he knew that his hair was in disarray and his
while aspect disorderly; yet he dared not take a cab, because he
feared to attract attention at home. When he reached the
sidewalk, he glanced about him to make sure that no one had seen
him leave the house, then started down the street, his eyes upon
the sidewalk before him.
George had the feeling of the morning after. There are few men
in this world of abundant sin who will not know what the phrase
means. The fumes of the night had evaporated; he was quite sober
now, quite free from excitement. He saw what he had done, and it
seemed to him something black and disgusting.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: could you get out of him?"
"Nothing, or almost nothing more than he told us here in the station,
sir.
"The man's incredibly stubborn," said the commissioner. "If he
could only be made to understand that a free confession would benefit
him more than any one else! Well, don't look so down-cast about it,
Muller. This thing is going to take longer than we thought at first
for such a simple affair. But it's only a question of time until the
man comes to his senses. You'll get him to talk soon. You always
do. And even if you should fail here, this matter is not so very
important, when we think of all the other things you have done."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: self-suggested, quickly disappeared. The various awe-compelling
phenomena soon ceased to have any connection with the
anthropomorphic noumena they had begotten. For instance, the
sun-goddess, we are informed, was one day lured out of a cavern,
where she was sulking in consequence of the provoking behavior of
her younger brother, by her curiosity at the sight of her own face
in a mirror, ingeniously placed before the entrance for the purpose.
But no Japanese would dream now of casting any such reflections,
however flattering, upon the face of the orb of day. The sun has
become not only quite sexless to him, but as devoid of personality
as it is to any Western materialist. Lesser deities suffered a like
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