| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: incredulous ladies, suddenly bereft, betrayed, overwhelmed, they
had slipped faster and faster down the steep slope at the bottom of
which she alone had rebounded. Her mother had never rebounded any
more at the bottom than on the way; had only rumbled and grumbled
down and down, making, in respect of caps, topics and "habits," no
effort whatever--which simply meant smelling much of the time of
whiskey.
CHAPTER II
It was always rather quiet at Cocker's while the contingent from
Ladle's and Thrupp's and all the other great places were at
luncheon, or, as the young men used vulgarly to say, while the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: constantly in the house.'
'Help me you cannot, Agnes; and I cannot go out with YOU - I have
far too much to do.'
'Then let me help you.'
'You cannot, indeed, dear child. Go and practise your music, or
play with the kitten.'
There was always plenty of sewing on hand; but I had not been
taught to cut out a single garment, and except plain hemming and
seaming, there was little I could do, even in that line; for they
both asserted that it was far easier to do the work themselves than
to prepare it for me: and besides, they liked better to see me
Agnes Grey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With the trunks of trees and branches,
Hoards of food against the winter,
Piles and heaps against the famine;
Found the lodge with arching doorway,
Leading into spacious chambers.
Here they made him large and larger,
Made him largest of the beavers,
Ten times larger than the others.
"You shall be our ruler," said they;
"Chief and King of all the beavers."
But not long had Pau-Puk-Keewis
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