| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: about. There weren't many flies on her, I tell you. She picked up English
quicker than I picked up her lingo, and took to wearing a dress and shawl."
The stranger still sat motionless, looking into the fire.
Peter Halket reseated himself more comfortably before the fire. "Well, I
came home to the huts one day, rather suddenly, you know, to fetch
something; and what did I find? She, talking at the hut door with a nigger
man. Now it was my strict orders they were neither to speak a word to a
nigger man at all; so I asked what it was. And she answers, as cool as can
be, that he was a stranger going past on the road, and asked her to give
him a drink of water. Well, I just ordered him off. I didn't think
anything more about it. But I remember now. I saw him hanging about the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: home after staying in office till seven, and by receiving crowds of
native gentlemen on Sundays. That is one sort of "earnestness."
Nafferton cast about for a peg whereon to hang his earnestness, and
for a string that would communicate with Pinecoffin. He found both.
They were Pig. Nafferton became an earnest inquirer after Pig. He
informed the Government that he had a scheme whereby a very large
percentage of the British Army in India could be fed, at a very
large saving, on Pig. Then he hinted that Pinecoffin might supply
him with the "varied information necessary to the proper inception
of the scheme." So the Government wrote on the back of the letter:--
"Instruct Mr. Pinecoffin to furnish Mr. Nafferton with any
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: You have great reason to do Richard right:
Especially for those occasions
At Eltham place I told your majesty.
KING.
And those occasions, uncle, were of force;
Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is
That Richard be restored to his blood.
WARWICK.
Let Richard be restored to his blood;
So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.
WINCHESTER.
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