| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: would act--act at once. It was only by thus planning ahead,
committing himself to some unavoidable line of conduct, that he
could pull himself through the meaningless days. Each time he
reached a fresh decision it was like coming out of a foggy
weltering sea into a calm harbour with lights. One of the
queerest phases of his long agony was the intense relief produced
by these momentary lulls.
"That the office of the Investigator? Yes? Give me Mr. Denver,
please. . . Hallo, Denver. . . Yes, Hubert Granice. . . . Just
caught you? Going straight home? Can I come and see you . . .
yes, now . . . have a talk? It's rather urgent . . . yes, might
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: of a chained dog, and are proud of it. But the end of it is that they
are always in chains, even at the height of their military or
political success: they win everything on condition that they are
afraid to enjoy it. Their civilizations rest on intimidation, which
is so necessary to them that when they cannot find anybody brave
enough to intimidate them they intimidate themselves and live in a
continual moral and political panic. In the end they get found out
and bullied. But that is not the point that concerns us here, which
is, that they are in some respects better brought up than the children
of sentimental people who are always anxious and miserable about their
duty to their children, and who end by neither making their children
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: "We must attack the dyke," said Ford, raising his pick;
"for at the other side of the break, at more or less depth,
we shall assuredly find the vein, the existence of which I assert."
"And was it on the surface of these rocks that you found out
the fire-damp?" asked James Starr.
"Just there, sir," returned Ford, "and I was able to light
it only by bringing my lamp near to the cracks in the rock.
Harry has done it as well as I."
"At what height?" asked Starr.
"Ten feet from the ground," replied Harry.
James Starr had seated himself on a rock. After critically
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