| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "Ten shot," counted the business-like Amyas, "and ten pikes; Will
can tackle them up above."
Last of this troop came some inferior officer, also in his chair,
who, as he went slowly up the hill, with his face turned toward the
gang which followed, drew every other second the cigar from his
lips, to inspirit them with those pious ejaculations to the various
objects of his worship, divine, human, anatomic, wooden and
textile, which earned for the pious Spaniards of the sixteenth
century the uncharitable imputation of being at once the most
fetish-ridden idolaters and the most abominable swearers of all
Europeans.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: The wings that bore my soul were very tired.
I watched the careless spring too many times
Light her green torches in a hungry wind;
Too many times I watched them flare, and then
Fall to forsaken embers in the autumn.
And I was sick of all things--even song.
In the dull autumn dawn I turned to death,
Buried my living body in the sea,
The strong cold sea that takes and does not give--
But there is one more strong, the Cyprian.
Litis, to wake from sleep and find your eyes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by
himself quite without intention--spoken as they lingered and slowly
moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had been
conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she
was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he
was one, and thanks to whom it was his theory, as always, that he
was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon. There
had been after luncheon much dispersal, all in the interest of the
original motive, a view of Weatherend itself and the fine things,
intrinsic features, pictures, heirlooms, treasures of all the arts,
that made the place almost famous; and the great rooms were so
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