| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: "Put 'Louis-Gaston,' " she went on.
She sighed, then she went on.
"Seal the letter, and direct it. To Lord Brandon, Brandon Square, Hyde
Park, London, Angleterre.--That is right. When I am dead, post the
letter in Tours, and prepay the postage.--Now," she added, after a
pause, "take the little pocketbook that you know, and come here, my
dear child. . . . There are twelve thousand francs in it," she said,
when Louis had returned to her side. "That is all your own. Oh me! you
would have been better off if your father----"
"My father," cried the boy, "where is he?"
"He is dead," she said, laying her finger on her lips; "he died to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: CRITIAS.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Critias, Hermocrates, Timaeus, Socrates.
TIMAEUS: How thankful I am, Socrates, that I have arrived at last, and,
like a weary traveller after a long journey, may be at rest! And I pray
the being who always was of old, and has now been by me revealed, to grant
that my words may endure in so far as they have been spoken truly and
acceptably to him; but if unintentionally I have said anything wrong, I
pray that he will impose upon me a just retribution, and the just
retribution of him who errs is that he should be set right. Wishing, then,
to speak truly in future concerning the generation of the gods, I pray him
to give me knowledge, which of all medicines is the most perfect and best.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: Orde brushed this speech aside as irrelevant.
"Our association, of course, comes to an end. There remain the
terms of settlement. I could fire you out of this without a cent,
and you'd have to git. But that wouldn't be fair. I don't give a
damn for you; but it wouldn't be fair to me. Now as for the
Northern Peninsula timber, you have had seventy-five thousand out of
that and have lent me the same amount. Call that quits. I will
take up your note when it comes due; and destroy the one given to
Heinzman. For all your holdings in our common business I will give
you my note without interest and without time for one hundred
thousand dollars. That is not its face value, nor anything like it,
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