| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: and raised the weapon before Horn could prevent him. "Leave that
pistol where it was," commanded the commissioner. "We have to look
into this matter more closely."
The doctor turned quickly. "You think it was a murder?" he
exclaimed. "The doors were both locked on the inside - where could
the murderer be?"
"I don't pretend to see him myself yet. But our rule is to leave
things as they are discovered, until the official examination.
Muller, did you shut the outer door?"
"Yes, sir; here is the key."
"Johann, are there any more keys for the outer door?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: whose manners showed that they had not been born to this low estate.
Their story had no mystery, and Marian easily collected it from
the tenour of their conversation. The young man had been, like Robin,
the victim of an usurious abbot, and had been outlawed for debt,
and his nut-brown maid had accompanied him to the depths of Sherwood,
where they lived an unholy and illegitimate life, killing the king's deer,
and never hearing mass. In this state, Robin, then earl of Huntingdon,
discovered them in one of his huntings, and gave them aid and protection.
When Robin himself became an outlaw, the necessary qualification or gift
of continency was too hard a law for our lovers to subscribe to;
and as they were thus disqualified for foresters, Robin had found them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: seems, boards in the same house with him, saw him
coming out of our door, and, the houses looking very
much alike, he came into our house instead of his
lodgings; nor did he discover his mistake until he got
into the parlour, where I was; he then bowed so
gracefully, made such a genteel apology, and looked
so manly and noble!--
CHARLOTTE
I see some folks, though it is so great an impropri-
ety, can praise a gentleman, when he happens to be
the man of their fancy. [Aside.]
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