| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: radishes,--the kind your teeth sink into with a crunch."
"I'd have followed the eggs with them, I guess, if I hadn't
awakened," Pentfield replied.
He picked up a trail-scarred banjo from the floor and began to
strum a few wandering notes. Hutchinson winced and breathed
heavily.
"Quit it!" he burst out with sudden fury, as the other struck into
a gaily lifting swing. "It drives me mad. I can't stand it"
Pentfield tossed the banjo into a bunk and quoted:-
"Hear me babble what the weakest won't confess -
I am Memory and Torment--I am Town!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: me, and more also!'
'It is a bargain!' he answered slowly. 'I think that you will
be faithful. For money, here are a hundred crowns. That sum
should suffice; but if you succeed you shall have twice as much
more. That is all, I think. You understand?'
'Yes, Monseigneur.'
'Then why do you wait?'
'The lieutenant?' I said modestly.
The Cardinal laughed to himself, and sitting down wrote a word or
two on a slip of paper. 'Give him that,' he said in high good-
humour. 'I fear, M. de Berault, you will never get your deserts
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: would have given something myself that it had been on none; but the
hearers were much awed. I called for a tune or two, and thus
introduced myself to the notice of the brother, who directed his talk
to me for some little while, keeping, I need hardly mention, true to
his topic, like the seamen to the star. 'He's grand of it,' he said
confidentially. 'His master was a music-hall man.' Indeed the
music-hall man had left his mark, for our fiddler was ignorant of
many of our best old airs; 'Logie o' Buchan,' for instance, he only
knew as a quick, jigging figure in a set of quadrilles, and had never
heard it called by name. Perhaps, after all, the brother was the
more interesting performer of the two. I have spoken with him
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