| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: and wished him joy.
He coloured, and stammered out an unintelligible reply.
Elinor's lips had moved with her mother's, and, when the
moment of action was over, she wished that she had shaken
hands with him too. But it was then too late, and with a
countenance meaning to be open, she sat down again
and talked of the weather.
Marianne had retreated as much as possible
out of sight, to conceal her distress; and Margaret,
understanding some part, but not the whole of the case,
thought it incumbent on her to be dignified, and therefore
Sense and Sensibility |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: While summer is departing. Spring it is
Blesses the fruit-plantation, Spring the groves;
In Spring earth swells and claims the fruitful seed.
Then Aether, sire omnipotent, leaps down
With quickening showers to his glad wife's embrace,
And, might with might commingling, rears to life
All germs that teem within her; then resound
With songs of birds the greenwood-wildernesses,
And in due time the herds their loves renew;
Then the boon earth yields increase, and the fields
Unlock their bosoms to the warm west winds;
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: help, some willingness you can get out of everybody. That's
the red. And the same principle applies to most labour and
property problems, to health, to education, to population,
social relationships and war and peace. We haven't got the
right system, we have inefficient half-baked systems, or no
system at all, and a wild confusion and war of ideas in all
these respects. But there is a right system possible none the
less. Let us only hammer our way through to the sane and
reasonable organization in this and that and the other human
affairs, and once we have got it, we shall have got it for
good. We may not live to see even the beginnings of success,
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