| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: of our lake. It looked like a pond a few hundred
feet down. Then we made out a pin-point of white
moving leisurely near its border. After a while we
realized that the pin-point of white was one of
our pack-horses, and immediately the flat little scene
shot backwards as though moved from behind and
acknowledged its due number of miles. The miniature
crags at its back became gigantic; the peaks
beyond grew thousands of feet in the establishment
of a proportion which the lack of "atmosphere" had
denied. We never succeeded in getting adequate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: rasping noise of a saw, and the noise
of a little dog, scratching and yelping!
The rats dropped the rolling pin
and listened attentively.
"We are discovered and interrupted,
Anna Maria; let us collect our
property--and other people's--and
depart at once.
"I fear that we shall be obliged to
leave this pudding.
"But I am persuaded that the knots
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: morning, the grey showers fall steadily, the trees hang limp, and the
face of the stream is spoiled with dimpling raindrops. Yesterday's
lilies encumber the garden walk, or begin, dismally enough, their
voyage towards the Seine and the salt sea. A sickly shimmer lies
upon the dripping house-roofs, and all the colour is washed out of
the green and golden landscape of last night, as though an envious
man had taken a water-colour sketch and blotted it together with a
sponge. We go out a-walking in the wet roads. But the roads about
Grez have a trick of their own. They go on for a while among clumps
of willows and patches of vine, and then, suddenly and without any
warning, cease and determine in some miry hollow or upon some bald
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