| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table,
where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by
which the castle might be disenchanted. The first tablet said: 'In the
wood, under the moss, lie the thousand pearls belonging to the king's
daughter; they must all be found: and if one be missing by set of sun,
he who seeks them will be turned into marble.'
The eldest brother set out, and sought for the pearls the whole day:
but the evening came, and he had not found the first hundred: so he
was turned into stone as the tablet had foretold.
The next day the second brother undertook the task; but he succeeded
no better than the first; for he could only find the second hundred of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: tangible and sure. The measure of Charles's indifference to
all that now preoccupies and excites a poet, is best given by
a positive example. If, besides the coming of spring, any
one external circumstance may be said to have struck his
imagination, it was the despatch of FOURRIERS, while on a
journey, to prepare the night's lodging. This seems to be
his favourite image; it reappears like the upas-tree in the
early work of Coleridge: we may judge with what childish eyes
he looked upon the world, if one of the sights which most
impressed him was that of a man going to order dinner.
Although they are not inspired by any deeper motive than the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Of one by nature's outwards so commended,
That maiden's eyes stuck over all his face:
Love lack'd a dwelling and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide,
She was new lodg'd and newly deified.
'His browny locks did hang in crooked curls;
And every light occasion of the wind
Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls.
What's sweet to do, to do will aptly find:
Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind;
For on his visage was in little drawn,
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