| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: his manner instinctively stiffened.
She sat up.
"Can you speak my language?" he asked. "I wouldn't put such a
question, but others have been able to."
"Why should you imagine that I can't read your mind? Is it so
extremely complex?"
She spoke in a rich, lingering, musical voice, which delighted him to
listen to.
"No, but you have no breve."
"Well, but haven't I a sorb, which is better?" And she pointed to the
eye on her brow.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: Em, who was in the storeroom measuring the Kaffer's rations, looked up and
saw her former lover standing betwixt her and the sunshine. For some days
after that evening on which he had ridden home whistling he had shunned
her. She might wish to enter into explanations, and he, Gregory Rose, was
not the man for that kind of thing. If a woman had once thrown him
overboard she must take the consequences, and stand by them. When,
however, she showed no inclination to revert to the past, and shunned him
more than he shunned her, Gregory softened.
"You must let me call you Em still, and be like a brother to you till I
go," he said; and Em thanked him so humbly that he wished she hadn't. It
wasn't so easy after that to think himself an injured man.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: actor, could not overcome his evil propensities, and before seven
months had passed, he was expelled from the monastery.
Returning to England, he sought out Dr. Tonge, to whom he was
unable to recount the secret of a single plot. Confident,
however, that wicked schemes against the lives and properties of
innocent protestants were being concocted by wily Jesuits, the
fanatical divine urged Oates to present himself once more before
them, bewail his misconduct, promise amendment, and seek
readmission to their midst. Following his advice, Oates was
again received by the Jesuits, and sent to their famous seminary
at St. Omer's; where, though he had reached the age of thirty
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