| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: 'When Monday came round I went to lunch with my uncle, and about
four o'clock found myself in the Marylebone Road. My uncle, you
know, lives in Regent's Park. I wanted to get to Piccadilly, and
took a short cut through a lot of shabby little streets. Suddenly
I saw in front of me Lady Alroy, deeply veiled and walking very
fast. On coming to the last house in the street, she went up the
steps, took out a latch-key, and let herself in. "Here is the
mystery," I said to myself; and I hurried on and examined the
house. It seemed a sort of place for letting lodgings. On the
doorstep lay her handkerchief, which she had dropped. I picked it
up and put it in my pocket. Then I began to consider what I should
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: thought you wanted me to show you the place?"
Mrs. Bernauer raised her head and Muller saw that her face looked
pale and haggard and that her eyes shone with an uneasy feverish
light. She did not answer the old man's questions, but made a
gesture of farewell and then turned and walked slowly towards the
house. She realised, apparently, and feared, perhaps, that the
man who was passing the gate might have, noticed her sudden change
of demeanour and that he was listening to what she might say. She
did not think of the knot-hole in the board fence, or she might
have been more careful in hiding her distraught face from possible
observers.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: schooner _Nancy Hanks_ . Escaped at Honolulu. Back in Verden
to-night. Keep up the fight.'"
"Didn't I say Jeff was alive? Didn't I say he would come back and
beat those robbers yet?" the owner of the _World_ demanded.
"Don't get excited. It may be a fake." This from Hardy, who was
almost as much moved himself.
"Fake nothing! We'll go down to the telegraph office and make sure
it's 0. K. Won't this make a bully story for the _World_
'Shanghaied' in big letters across the top, and underneath a red
hot roast of the old city hall gang's methods of trying to defeat
the will of the people." Rawson laughed aloud as his imagination
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