| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: "How perfectly lovely!" sighed Diana, who belonged to Matthew's
school of critics. "I don't see how you can make up such
thrilling things out of your own head, Anne. I wish my
imagination was as good as yours."
"It would be if you'd only cultivate it," said Anne cheeringly.
"I've just thought of a plan, Diana. Let you and me have a story
club all our own and write stories for practice. I'll help you
along until you can do them by yourself. You ought to cultivate
your imagination, you know. Miss Stacy says so. Only we must
take the right way. I told her about the Haunted Wood, but she
said we went the wrong way about it in that."
 Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: They lack not; lawns and wild beasts' haunts are there,
A youth of labour patient, need-inured,
Worship, and reverend sires: with them from earth
Departing justice her last footprints left.
Me before all things may the Muses sweet,
Whose rites I bear with mighty passion pierced,
Receive, and show the paths and stars of heaven,
The sun's eclipses and the labouring moons,
From whence the earthquake, by what power the seas
Swell from their depths, and, every barrier burst,
Sink back upon themselves, why winter-suns
 Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Kulan Tith darkened in a menacing scowl as his eyes rested upon me,
the noble drew a small mirror from his pocket-pouch and held it
before my face.
One glance at the reflection it gave back to me was sufficient.
From my forehead the hand of the sneaking thern had reached out
through the concealing darkness of my bed-chamber and wiped away
a patch of the disguising red pigment as broad as my palm.
Beneath showed the tanned texture of my own white skin.
 The Warlord of Mars |