| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: the time she was 8 years old she was expelled from school and was
generally known as an habitual liar and a child who showed most
premature sex tendencies. She then went much with little boys
and was constantly in trouble for stealing as well. Occasionally
good reports were made of her, but sometimes she was stated to
have a perfect mania for taking things. A number of people who
have tried to help her have spoken of the elaborateness of her
verbal inventions. At one place she destroyed letters and took a
check from the mail and tore it up. She talked freely of sex
affairs to many people, particularly to women, and showed
evidence of intense local feelings. At one time she expressed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: he had taken with him his latest wife, the same lady whom
Jorgenson had mentioned in his letter to Lingard as anxious to
bring about battle, murder, and the looting of the yacht, not
because of inborn wickedness of heart but from a simple desire
for silks, jewels and other objects of personal adornment, quite
natural in a girl so young and elevated to such a high position.
Belarab had selected her to be the companion of his retirement
and Lingard was glad of it. He was not afraid of her influence
over Belarab. He knew his man. No words, no blandishments, no
sulks, scoldings, or whisperings of a favourite could affect
either the resolves or the irresolutions of that Arab whose
The Rescue |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: gray;[37] of the smaller, bluish. The black about the tips of the ears
is largely spread in the one, but slightly in the other species. Of
these two species, the smaller is to be met with in most of the
islands, desert and inhabited alike. As regards numbers they are more
abundant in the islands than on the mainland; the fact being that in
most of these there are no foxes to attack and carry off either the
grown animal or its young; nor yet eagles, whose habitat is on lofty
mountains rather than the lower type of hills which characterise the
islands.[38] Again, sportsmen seldom visit the desert islands, and as
to those which are inhabited, the population is but thinly scattered
and the folk themselves not addicted to the chase; while in the case
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