| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: teeth is not that of ivory, but of the snowiest and most gleaming
of china. Against the dark background of their olive
skins their tusks stand out in a most striking manner, making
these weapons present a singularly formidable appearance.
Most of these details I noted later, for I was given but little
time to speculate on the wonders of my new discovery. I had
seen that the eggs were in the process of hatching, and as I
stood watching the hideous little monsters break from their
shells I failed to note the approach of a score of full-grown
Martians from behind me.
Coming, as they did, over the soft and soundless moss,
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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: father-in-law would be as deplorable a figure in popular tradition as
the mother-in-law.
It is not to be wondered at that some people hold that blood
relationship should be kept a secret from the persons related, and
that the happiest condition in this respect is that of the foundling
who, if he ever meets his parents or brothers or sisters, passes them
by without knowing them. And for such a view there is this to be
said: that our family system does unquestionably take the natural
bond between members of the same family, which, like all natural
bonds, is not too tight to be borne, and superimposes on it a painful
burden of forced, inculcated, suggested, and altogether unnecessary
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: the late Lord Durham, who, during his stay in Paris, visited every
prison. So curious was he to see every detail of French justice, that
he even persuaded Sanson, at that time the executioner, to erect the
scaffold and decapitate a living calf, that he might thoroughly
understand the working of the machine made famous by the Revolution.
The governor having shown him everything--the yards, the workshops,
and the underground cells--pointed to a part of the building, and
said, "I need not take your Lordship there; it is the quartier des
tantes."--"Oh," said Lord Durham, "what are they!"--"The third sex, my
Lord."
"And they are going to scrag Theodore!" said la Pouraille, "such a
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