| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: reason."
"God grant it!" said Monsieur Fanjat, who himself was affected by the
incident.
Ever since he had made a close study of insanity, the good man had met
with many examples of the prophetic faculty and the gift of second
sight, proofs of which are frequently given by alienated minds, and
which may also be found, so travellers say, among certain tribes of
savages.
As the colonel had calculated, Stephanie crossed the fictitious plain
of the Beresina at nine o'clock in the morning, when she was awakened
by a cannon shot not a hundred yards from the spot where the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: PETRUCHIO.
Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world
That talk'd of her have talk'd amiss of her:
If she be curst, it is for policy,
For she's not froward, but modest as the dove;
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
And Roman Lucrece for her chastity;
And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together
That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.
KATHERINA.
The Taming of the Shrew |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: when not likely to be in use, folded up and laid as a
hearthrug partly under the fender.'
My grandfather was king in the service to his finger-
tips. All should go in his way, from the principal
lightkeeper's coat to the assistant's fender, from the gravel
in the garden-walks to the bad smell in the kitchen, or the
oil-spots on the store-room floor. It might be thought there
was nothing more calculated to awake men's resentment, and yet
his rule was not more thorough than it was beneficent. His
thought for the keepers was continual, and it did not end with
their lives. He tried to manage their successions; he thought
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