| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Old island walls with older seas
Comes here where now September makes
An island in a sea of trees.
Between the sunlight and the shade
A man may learn till he forgets
The roaring of a world remade,
And all his ruins and regrets;
And if he still remembers here
Poor fights he may have won or lost, --
If he be ridden with the fear
Of what some other fight may cost, --
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: "Look out, Nina," he said at last; "there, where the water palms
end and the twigs hang down under the leaning tree. Steer for
the big green branch."
He stood up attentive, and the boat drifted slowly in shore, Nina
guiding it by a gentle and skilful movement of her paddle. When
near enough Dain laid hold of the big branch, and leaning back
shot the canoe under a low green archway of thickly matted
creepers giving access to a miniature bay formed by the caving in
of the bank during the last great flood. His own boat was there
anchored by a stone, and he stepped into it, keeping his hand on
the gunwale of Nina's canoe. In a moment the two little
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: passage--"Tiddly, widdly--" "Buzz!
Wizz! Wizz!"
He met Babbitty round a corner,
and snapped her up, and put
her down again.
"I do not like bumble bees. They
are all over bristles," said Mr.
Jackson, wiping his mouth with
his coat sleeve.
"Get out, you nasty old toad!" shrieked Babbitty Bumble.
"I shall go distracted!" scolded Mrs. Tittlemouse.
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