| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: invited to specify the statements to which he took exception; in
the presence of witnesses he went over the article line by line,
and specified two minor errors, which were at once corrected. At
the end of the conference he announced that if the articles were
published, Hampton's Magazine would be "on the rocks in ninety
days."
Which threat was carried out to the letter. First came a campaign
among the advertisers of the magazine, which lost an income of
thousands of dollars a month, almost over night. And then came a
campaign among the banks--the magazine could not get credit.
Anyone familiar with the publishing business will understand that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: to pieces, Synthesis snatched the work out of his hands before it
was a quarter done, and began putting it together again to suit
his own fancy, and, of course, put it together wrong. Then he
went on to bully his elder brother, and locked him up in prison,
and starved him, till for many hundred years poor Analysis never
grew at all, but remained dwarfed, and stupid, and all but blind
for want of light; while Synthesis, and all the hasty conceited
people who followed him, grew stout and strong and tyrannous, and
overspread the whole world, and ruled it at their will. But the
fault of all the work of Synthesis was just this: that it would
not work. His watches would not keep time, his soldiers would not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: by saying that children are a curse?"
"My dear youth, on what basis are we talking?" and St. George
dropped upon the sofa at a short distance from him. Sitting a
little sideways he leaned back against the opposite arm with his
hands raised and interlocked behind his head. "On the supposition
that a certain perfection's possible and even desirable - isn't it
so? Well, all I say is that one's children interfere with
perfection. One's wife interferes. Marriage interferes."
"You think then the artist shouldn't marry?"
"He does so at his peril - he does so at his cost."
"Not even when his wife's in sympathy with his work?"
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