| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: the young man who composedly perilled his life and lost it,
has done exceeding well for himself; while the man who has
not perilled his life, and retains it to old age in riches
and ease, has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth
mentioning; and that only that person has no great prudence
to learn, who has learnt to prefer real long-lived things,
and favours body and soul the same, and perceives the
indirect surely following the direct, and what evil or good
he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again, and who
in his spirit, in any emergency whatever, neither hurries nor
avoids death."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: already a first mortgage of one hundred pounds upon it, and he
would not dare to put more than three hundred more atop of that.
Hiram had a considerable quantity of wheat which he had bought
upon speculation and which was then lying idle in a Philadelphia
storehouse. This he had sold at public sale and at a very great
sacrifice; he realized barely one hundred pounds upon it. The
financial horizon looked very black to him; nevertheless, Levi's
five hundred pounds was raised, and paid into Squire Hall's
hands, and Squire Hall released Hiram's bond.
The business was finally closed on one cold, gray afternoon in
the early part of December. As Hiram tore his bond across and
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: fire.
'And now, I suppose you'll hate me!' he said in a quiet, inevitable
way. She looked up at him quickly.
'Why should I?' she asked.
'They mostly do,' he said; then he caught himself up. 'I mean...a woman
is supposed to.'
'This is the last moment when I ought to hate you,' she said
resentfully.
'I know! I know! It should be so! You're FRIGHTFULLY good to me...' he
cried miserably.
She wondered why he should be miserable. 'Won't you sit down again?'
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
