| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Margret Howth: A Story of To-day by Rebecca Harding Davis: now: he finished his wood-chopping an hour ago. Asleep,
doubtless; that was one comfort. Well, if he were awake, he
could not understand. That class of people----And Mrs. Howth
(into whose kindly brain just enough of her husband's creed had
glimmered to make her say, "that class of people," in the tone
with which Abraham would NOT have spoken of Dives over the gulf)
went tranquilly back to her knitting, wondering why Dr. Knowles
should come ten times now where he used to come once, to provoke
Samuel into these wearisome arguments. Ever since their
misfortune came on them, he had been there every night, always at
it. She should think he might be a little more considerate. Mr.
Margret Howth: A Story of To-day |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: der to get the information he wanted. He took
precautions to make sure that the watchman was
absent, and that the horses were standing in their
boxes in the stable. He brought the thieves to
the place, and helped them to carry off the three
horses.
They divided their gains, and Ivan Mironov
returned to his wife with five roubles in his pocket.
He had nothing to do at home, having no horse
to work in the field, and therefore continued to
steal horses in company with professional horse-
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: years. It is plain you take after your father. One can soon see
when a man is son to one whom heaven has blessed both as regards
wife and offspring--and it has blessed Nestor from first to last
all his days, giving him a green old age in his own house, with
sons about him who are both well disposed and valiant. We will
put an end therefore to all this weeping, and attend to our
supper again. Let water be poured over our hands. Telemachus and
I can talk with one another fully in the morning."
On this Asphalion, one of the servants, poured water over their
hands and they laid their hands on the good things that were
before them.
The Odyssey |
