| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: The words had hardly left his lips when the statue gave a great
cry and clapped her hands together. In an instant an echoing cry
sounded all over the town--a shriek fit to split the ears.
The next moment there came another sound--a sound like thunder--above and below and everywhere. The
earth began to shake and to
rock, and the houses began to topple and fall, and the people
began to scream and to yell and to shout, and the waters of the
sea began to lash and to roar, and the wind began to bellow and
howl. Then it was a good thing for King Selim that he wore Luck's
Ring; for, though all the beautiful snow-white palace about him
and above him began to crumble to pieces like slaked lime, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: money she could earn for herself, did not permit of the indulgence
in a daily newspaper. And yet the reading of the papers was the
one luxury for which the simple woman longed. Her grocer, who was
a friend of years, knew this and would wrap up her purchases in
papers of recent date, knowing that she could then enjoy them in
her few moments of leisure. To-day this leisure came unexpectedly
early, for Mrs. Klingmayer had less work than usual to attend to.
Her little flat consisted of two rooms and a kitchen with a large
closet opening out from it. She lived in the kitchen and rented
the front rooms. Her tenants were a middle-aged man, inspector
in a factory, who had the larger room; and a younger man who was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: mountain to his door, the doctor overtook me at a trot.
'Here,' he said, 'we shall dismount; and as your mother
prefers to be alone, you and I shall walk together to my
house.'
'Shall I see her again?' I asked.
'I give you my word,' he said, and helped me to alight. 'We
leave the horses here,' he added. 'There are no thieves in
this stone wilderness.'
The track mounted gradually, keeping the house in view. The
windows were once more bright; the chimney once more vomited
smoke; but the most absolute silence reigned, and, but for
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