| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: Had Nekhludoff at that time been conscious of his love for
Katusha, and especially if he had been told that he could on no
account join his life with that of a girl in her position, it
might have easily happened that, with his usual straight-
forwardness, he would have come to the conclusion that there
could be no possible reason for him not to marry any girl
whatever, as long as he loved her. But his aunts did not
mention their fears to him; and, when he left, he was still
unconscious of his love for Katusha. He was sure that what he
felt for Katusha was only one of the manifestations of the joy of
life that filled his whole being, and that this sweet, merry
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: trumpets." Another fountain flowed with wine and water; and on
his way the king heard several speeches delivered by various
symbolic figures. One of these, who made a particularly fine
harangue, represented the River Thames, as a gentleman whose
"garment loose and flowing, coloured blue and white, waved like
water, flags and ozier-like long hair falling o'er his shoulders;
his beard long, sea-green, and white." And so by slow degrees
the king came to Temple Bar, where he was entertained by "a view
of a delightful boscage, full of several beasts, both tame and
savage, as also several living figures and music of eight waits."
And having passed through Temple Bar into his ancient and native
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: to cover. Where the watered hollows grew lush were
thickets full of birds, outposts of the aggressively
and cheerfully worldly in this pine-land of spiritual
detachment. Gorgeous bush-flowers, great of petal
as magnolias, with perfume that lay on the air like
a heavy drowsiness; long clear stretches of an ankle-
high shrub of vivid emerald, looking in the distance
like sloping meadows of a peculiar color-brilliance;
patches of smaller flowers where for the trifling space
of a street's width the sun had unobstructed fall,--
these from time to time diversified the way, brought
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