| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: white cheeks; his eyes lost something of the sadness that dulled them,
and he said, in a peculiar tone of voice:--
"You are an angle of goodness-- But Labedoyere!" he added. "Oh,
Labedoyere!"
At this cry they all three looked at one another in silence, each
comprehending the others' thoughts. No longer friends of twenty
minutes only, they were friends of twenty years.
"Dear friend," said Servin, "can you save him?"
"I can avenge him."
Ginevra quivered. Though the stranger was handsome, his appearance had
not influenced her; the soft pity in a woman's heart for miseries that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: after him. The difficulty was that this exactly was what he never
did; it was against his whole policy, as he might have said, the
essence of which was to keep vistas clear. He had them from the
first, as he was well aware, quite on the brain: the strange
apparition, at the far end of one of them, of his baffled "prey"
(which had become by so sharp an irony so little the term now to
apply!) was the form of success his imagination had most cherished,
projecting into it always a refinement of beauty. He had known
fifty times the start of perception that had afterwards dropped;
had fifty times gasped to himself. "There!" under some fond brief
hallucination. The house, as the case stood, admirably lent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: balance matters between the sexes. The cruelty of scornful
mistresses shall be return'd; the slighted maid shall grow into
an imperious gallant, and reward her undoer with a big belly, and
a bastard.
It is hardly possible to imagine the revolutions that this
wonderful phaenomenon will occasion over the face of the earth. I
long impatiently to see the proceedings of the Parliament of
Paris, as to the title of succession to the crown, this being a
case not provided for by the salique law. There will be no
preventing disorders amongst friars and monks; for certainly vows
of chastity do not bind but under the sex in which they were
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