| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: "What was it like?" asked the sheep faintly.
No answer.
The bee gave a shudder. "Whatever did we shut the door for?" she said
softly. Oh, why, why had they shut the door?
While they were playing, the day had faded; the gorgeous sunset had blazed
and died. And now the quick dark came racing over the sea, over the sand-
hills, up the paddock. You were frightened to look in the corners of the
washhouse, and yet you had to look with all your might. And somewhere, far
away, grandma was lighting a lamp. The blinds were being pulled down; the
kitchen fire leapt in the tins on the mantelpiece.
"It would be awful now," said the bull, "if a spider was to fall from the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: On the approach to execution all is changed. The artist must
now step down, don his working clothes, and become the
artisan. He now resolutely commits his airy conception, his
delicate Ariel, to the touch of matter; he must decide,
almost in a breath, the scale, the style, the spirit, and the
particularity of execution of his whole design.
The engendering idea of some works is stylistic; a technical
preoccupation stands them instead of some robuster principle
of life. And with these the execution is but play; for the
stylistic problem is resolved beforehand, and all large
originality of treatment wilfully foregone. Such are the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi subsequently
remonstrated against it with more or less vigor. But Congress,
far from lending an ear to these complaints, raised the scale of
tariff duties in the years 1824 and 1828, and recognized anew the
principle on which it was founded. A doctrine was then
proclaimed, or rather revived, in the South, which took the name
of Nullification.
I have shown in the proper place that the object of the
Federal Constitution was not to form a league, but to create a
national government. The Americans of the United States form a
sole and undivided people, in all the cases which are specified
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