| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: it, with a low bow, to Lord Arthur, who read on it,
MR. SEPTIMUS R. PODGERS
PROFESSIONAL CHEIROMANTIST
103A WEST MOON STREET
'My hours are from ten to four,' murmured Mr. Podgers mechanically,
'and I make a reduction for families.'
'Be quick,' cried Lord Arthur, looking very pale, and holding his
hand out.
Mr. Podgers glanced nervously round, and drew the heavy PORTIERE
across the door.
'It will take a little time, Lord Arthur, you had better sit down.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: 'Call it not, love, for Love to heaven is fled,
Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name;
Under whose simple semblance he hath fed
Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame; 796
Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves,
As caterpillars do the tender leaves.
'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; 800
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: Not when we understand--as we do now.
That was the limit of her eloquence.
"Not now that we understand, Daddy," said Clementina, and a
faint flavour of Lady Sunderbund seemed to pass and vanish.
There was a queer little pause. He stood rather distressed and
perplexed, because the talk had not gone quite as he had intended
it to go. It had deteriorated towards personal issues. Phoebe
broke the awkwardness by jumping up and coming to her father.
"Dear Daddy," she said, and kissed him.
"We didn't understand properly," said Clementina, in the tone
of one who explains away much--that had never been spoken....
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