| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
VII
The Gardener
The gardener does not love to talk.
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: girl as much as you do."
"But a medical college, Blix! You don't know what you are talking
about."
"Yes, I do. There's a college in New York just for women. Aunt
Kihm sent me the prospectus, and it's one of the best in the
country. I don't dream of practicing, you know; at least, I don't
think about that now. But one must have some occupation; and
isn't studying medicine, Condy, better than piano-playing, or
French courses, or literary classes and Browning circles? Oh, I've
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: any sort of work. She never opens a book, and her maid writes her
notes. You'll say that those who live in glass houses shouldn't
throw stones. Of course I know that if I didn't wear my goggles I
shouldn't be good for much."
"Do you mean that Miss Saunt ought to sport such things?" I
exclaimed with more horror than I meant to show.
"I don't prescribe for her; I don't know that they're what she
requires."
"What's the matter with her eyes?" I asked after a moment.
"I don't exactly know; but I heard from her mother years ago that
even as a child they had had for a while to put her into spectacles
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