| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: your lesson wrong. I determined to embarrass, to mislead, to defeat you.
Or rather, I did n't determine; I simply obeyed a natural impulse
of self-defence--the impulse to evade the fierce light of criticism.
I wished to put you in the wrong."
"You did it all very well. You put me admirably in the wrong."
"The only justification for my doing it at all was my doing it well,"
said Angela.
"You were justified then! You must have hated me fiercely."
She turned her back to him and stood looking at the fire again.
"Yes, there are some things that I did that can be accounted
for only by an intense aversion."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: To bring such tidings as may comfort you.
BANISTER.
You have given life unto a man deemed dead,
For by these news, my life is newly bred.
MISTRESS BANISTER.
Thanks to my God, next to my Sovereign King,
And last to you that these good hopes doth bring.
GOVERNOUR.
The hundred pound I must receive as due
For finding Bagot, I freely give to you.
BOWSER.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: the shipping.
[Tuesday, 5th June]
As the lighthouse advanced in height, the cubical
contents of the stones were less, but they had to be raised to
a greater height; and the walls, being thinner, were less
commodious for the necessary machinery and the artificers
employed, which considerably retarded the work. Inconvenience
was also occasionally experienced from the men dropping their
coats, hats, mallets, and other tools, at high-water, which
were carried away by the tide; and the danger to the people
themselves was now greatly increased. Had any of them fallen
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