| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: he could: "Clam-eater! Clam-eater!" He knew that Sea Vitch never
caught a fish in his life but always rooted for clams and seaweed;
though he pretended to be a very terrible person. Naturally the
Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Burgomaster
Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking
for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and--so Limmershin
told me--for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun
fired on Walrus Islet. All the population was yelling and
screaming "Clam-eater! Stareek [old man]!" while Sea Vitch rolled
from side to side grunting and coughing.
"Now will you tell?" said Kotick, all out of breath.
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd,
To show his sorrow, he 'ld correct himself;
So puts himself unto the shipman's toil,
With whom each minute threatens life or death.
THALIARD. [Aside.]
Well, I perceive
I shall not be hang'd now, although I would;
But since he 's gone, the king's seas must please
He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea.
I 'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!
HELICANUS.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: itself, so fond of turning around unexpected corners and sweeping
away in great circles from its direct course, that its first
explorers christened it after the eccentric supernumerary of the
alphabet which appears in the old spelling-books as &--and per se,
and.
But in spite of this apparent subordination to the stream in the
matter of a name, the mountain clearly asserts its natural
authority. It stands up boldly; and not only its own lake, but at
least three others, the Lower Saranac, Round Lake, and Lonesome
Pond, lie at its foot and acknowledge its lordship. When the cloud
is on its brow, they are dark. When the sunlight strikes it, they
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