| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: thing which I have to communicate shall be written
in black and white, and signed with my own name,
and black and white cannot lie."
It was Jane who spoke first. "What will people
say?" she whimpered, feebly.
"From what I have heard you all say to-night,
whatever you make them," retorted Annie -- the
Annie who had turned.
Jane gasped. Silas Hempstead stood staring,
quite dumb before the sudden problem. Imogen
alone seemed to have any command whatever of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he crouched to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
The Governor was strong upon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: conquering principle is called temperance; but when desire, which is devoid
of reason, rules in us and drags us to pleasure, that power of misrule is
called excess. Now excess has many names, and many members, and many
forms, and any of these forms when very marked gives a name, neither
honourable nor creditable, to the bearer of the name. The desire of
eating, for example, which gets the better of the higher reason and the
other desires, is called gluttony, and he who is possessed by it is called
a glutton; the tyrannical desire of drink, which inclines the possessor of
the desire to drink, has a name which is only too obvious, and there can be
as little doubt by what name any other appetite of the same family would be
called;--it will be the name of that which happens to be dominant. And now
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