| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: to be walking by just as the man tossed a shovel full down the road
the opposite way the man used to drive in and out. "I see you
aren't messing up the part of the road you use," sneered the neighbor.
A few minutes later another neighbor happened by and saw the
man toss a shovel full of gravel down the other part of the road. "I
see you are fixing only the part of the road you use, and not the
part others must use," sneered the second neighbor.
The shoveler stood still with a shovel full of gravel as the
second man left. Now unsure of what to do with it that would be
agreeable to his neighbors, he decided simply to dump it out onto
his driveway on the very spot whence he had scooped it up. Just as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: sophistries he had abused, to quiet the rebellion of his
conscience and to convince himself that slavery was natural,
fell like a child into the trap I laid for him. He praised
and thanked me; told me I had all the qualities he valued in
a servant; and when he had questioned me further as to the
nature and value of the treasure, and I had once more
artfully inflamed his greed, bade me without delay proceed to
carry out my plan of action.
From a shed in the garden, I took a pick and shovel; and
thence, by devious paths among the magnolias, led my master
to the entrance of the swamp. I walked first, carrying, as I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: signifying nothing. She did rather tilt at things. This particular
summer they were at a pleasant farmhouse in level country near
Pangbourne, belonging to the Hon. Wilfrid Winchester, and they asked
me to come down to rooms in the neighbourhood--Altiora took them for
a month for me in August--and board with them upon extremely
reasonable terms; and when I got there I found Margaret sitting in a
hammock at Altiora's feet. Lots of people, I gathered, were coming
and going in the neighbourhood, the Ponts were in a villa on the
river, and the Rickhams' houseboat was to moor for some days; but
these irruptions did not impede a great deal of duologue between
Margaret and myself.
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