| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: would not. He did not speak a word, nor did the other--and this
gave a queer ominous character to the debate; but he continued to
jerk his head towards the farther end of the corridor; and, at
last, he carried his point. Louis shrugged his shoulders, and
moved on, glancing askance at me; and I, not understanding the
matter in debate, followed the pair in silence.
We reached the end of the corridor, and there for an instant the
monster with the keys paused and grinned at me. Then he turned
into a narrow passage on the left, and after following it for
some paces, halted before a small, strong door. His key jarred
in the lock, but he forced it shrieking round, and with a savage
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: in force--Dick Humphries squinting along the sights of a
Winchester while Tommy apportioned their wages among them at his
own appraisement. It had been a little thing in itself, but it
meant much to a woman playing a desperate single-hand in the
equally desperate Klondike rush of '97. Men were occupied with
their own pressing needs, nor did they approve of women playing,
single-handed, the odds of the arctic winter. "If I was a man, I
know what I would do." Thus reiterated Molly, she of the flashing
eyes, and therein spoke the cumulative grit of five American-born
generations.
In the succeeding silence, Tommy thrust a pan of biscuits into the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: endowed by faith with incalculable power, and controlling magnetic
forces in all their applications. Not only did this great unknown (who
still lives) heal from a distance the worst and most inveterate
diseases, suddenly and radically, as the Savior of men did formerly,
but he was also able to call forth instantaneously the most remarkable
phenomena of somnambulism and conquer the most rebellious will. The
countenance of this mysterious being, who claims to be responsible to
God alone and to communicate, like Swedenborg, with angels, resembles
that of a lion; concentrated, irresistible energy shines in it. His
features, singularly contorted, have a terrible and even blasting
aspect. His voice, which comes from the depths of his being, seems
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