| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: these new countries, where I was so long content to stay, I
collected indispensable ingredients; I have fortified myself
on every side from the possibility of error; what was a dream
now takes the substance of reality; and when I offered you a
son of mine I did so in a figure. That son - that husband,
Asenath, is myself - not as you now behold me, but restored
to the first energy of youth. You think me mad? It is the
customary attitude of ignorance. I will not argue; I will
leave facts to speak. When you behold me purified,
invigorated, renewed, restamped in the original image - when
you recognise in me (what I shall be) the first perfect
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Her own eyes' serious light;
Where do they turn, as now her pen
Hangs o'er th'unfinished line?
Whence fell the tearful gleam that then
Did in their dark spheres shine?
The summer-parlour looks so dark,
When from that sky you turn,
And from th'expanse of that green park,
You scarce may aught discern.
Yet, o'er the piles of porcelain rare,
O'er flower-stand, couch, and vase,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: father made of himself.
In the latter end of Queen Anne's reign, and in the beginning of the reign
of King George the first--'Coat pockets were cut very low down in the
skirt.'--I need say no more--the father of mischief, had he been hammering
at it a month, could not have contrived a worse fashion for one in my
father's situation.
Chapter 1.XLVII.
It was not an easy matter in any king's reign (unless you were as lean a
subject as myself) to have forced your hand diagonally, quite across your
whole body, so as to gain the bottom of your opposite coat pocket.--In the
year one thousand seven hundred and eighteen, when this happened, it was
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