| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: not witnessed his first interview with their father, they knew
enough of the family history to surmise his errand. Joel was
silent and troubled.
"Alice, I hope it doesn't mean that we are going back, don't you?"
said Henry.
"Yes," she answered, and said no more.
They took a foot-path across the fields, and reached the farm-house
at the same time with the first party. As they opened the door
Sylvia descended the staircase dressed in a rich shimmering
brocade, with a necklace of amethysts around her throat. To their
eyes, so long accustomed to the absence of positive color, she was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: all my sorrows. Ah! I can bear them.--This is my son," she said, "I
bore, I reared this man," and she raised her hands above her, and
clasped them as if in ecstasy, then she lay back on the pillow.
"Mother, your face is growing pale!" cried the lad.
"Some one must go for a priest," she answered, with a dying voice.
Louis wakened Annette, and the terrified old woman hurried to the
parsonage at Saint-Cyr.
When morning came, Mme. Willemsens received the sacrament amid the
most touching surroundings. Her children were kneeling in the room,
with Annette and the vinedresser's family, simple folk, who had
already become part of the household. The silver crucifix, carried by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: carriage and out to get boiling water. I had nothing but a
couple of thermos flasks, but with these I joined the others.
>From every carriage on the train people poured out and
hurried to the taps. No one controlled the taps but, with the
instinct for co-operation for which Russians are remarkable,
people formed themselves automatically into queues, and by
the time the train started again everybody was back in his
place and ready for a general tea-drinking. This
performance was repeated again and again throughout the
night. People dozed off to sleep, woke up, drank more
tea, and joined in the various conversations that went on
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