| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: added, with a more engaging air, 'I am not the simple English
maiden I appear.'
'Oh!' murmured Harry, filled with inexpressible thoughts.
'In my own dear land,' she pursued, 'things are differently
ordered. There, I must own, a girl is bound by many and
rigorous restrictions; little is permitted her; she learns to
be distant, she learns to appear forbidding. But here, in
free England - oh, glorious liberty!' she cried, and threw up
her arms with a gesture of inimitable grace - 'here there are
no fetters; here the woman may dare to be herself entirely,
and the men, the chivalrous men - is it not written on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: If we can get over the next day it will be all right. Then we
can write about fuel and politics--and there won't be her
voice and her presence. We shall really SUBLIMATE. . . .
First class idea-- sublimate! . . . . And I will go back to
dear old Martin who's all alone there and miserable; I'll be
kind to her and play my part and tell her her Carbuncle scar
rather becomes her. . . . And in a little while I shall be
altogether in love with her again.
"Queer what a brute I've always been to Martin."
"Queer that Martin can come in a dream to me and take the
upper hand with me.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain: But when he got up in the morning, luck was against him again:
a brother thief had robbed him while he slept, and gone ashore at
some intermediate landing.
CHAPTER 16
Sold Down the River
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a
dog and a man.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about
the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the
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