| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: plains.
And inside-mind you, we were fresh from three months in the
wilderness-we found rugs, pictures, wall paper, a pianola, many
books, baths, beautiful white bedrooms with snowy mosquito
curtains, electric lights, running water, and above all an
atmosphere of homelike comfort. We fell into easy chairs, and
seized books and magazines. The Somalis brought us trays with
iced and fizzy drinks in thin glasses. When the time came we
crossed the veranda in the rear to enter a spacious separate
dining-room. The table was white with napery, glittering with
silver and glass, bright with flowers. We ate leisurely of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: disposition of the ship will first be necessary. In her very nose is
Steerage No. 1, down two pair of stairs. A little abaft, another
companion, labelled Steerage No. 2 and 3, gives admission to three
galleries, two running forward towards Steerage No. 1, and the third
aft towards the engines. The starboard forward gallery is the second
cabin. Away abaft the engines and below the officers' cabins, to
complete our survey of the vessel, there is yet a third nest of
steerages, labelled 4 and 5. The second cabin, to return, is thus a
modified oasis in the very heart of the steerages. Through the thin
partition you can hear the steerage passengers being sick, the rattle
of tin dishes as they sit at meals, the varied accents in which they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: bedding used in the women's apartments, and the bedding used in the
men's apartments; then the women's shoes and sandals, and the shoes
and sandals of the men.[10] There was one division devoted to arms and
armour; another to instruments used for carding wood; another to
implements for making bread; another to utensils for cooking
condiments; another to utensils for the bath; another connected with
the kneading trough; another with the service of the table. All these
we assigned to separate places, distinguishing one portion for daily
and recurrent use and the rest for high days and holidays. Next we
selected and set aside the supplies required for the month's
expenditure; and, under a separate head,[11] we stored away what we
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