| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: cautiously from behind the frame of the bedroom door. She was
quick to perceive Alfred's plight. Disappearing from view for an
instant, she soon reappeared with Alfred's favourite
clothes-brush. She tiptoed into the room.
Barely had Alfred drawn his coat on his shoulders, when he was
startled by a quick little flutter of the brush on his sleeve.
He turned in surprise and beheld Zoie, who looked up at him as
penitent and irresistible as a newly-punished child.
"Oh," snarled Alfred, and he glared at her as though he would
enjoy strangling her on the spot.
"Alfred," pouted Zoie, and he knew she was going to add her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 5 May they in flowing give us wealth in thousands, and heroic
power,-
These Godlike Soma-drops effused.
6 Like coursers by their drivers urged, they were poured forth,
for
victory,
Swift through the woollen straining-cloth.
7 Noisily flow the Soma-drops, like milch-kine lowing to their
calves:
They have run forth from both the hands.
8 As Gladdener whom Indra loves, O Pavamana, with a roar
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: of a hare on the run, and for this reason: in proceeding to her form
the hare keeps stopping,[15] the other is in rapid motion;
consequently, the ground in one case is thickly saturated all along
with scent, in the other sparsely and superficially. So, too, scent
lies better in woody than on barren ground, since, whilst running to
and fro or sitting up, the creature comes in contact with a variety of
objects. Everything that earth produces or bears upon her bosom will
serve as puss's resting-place. These are her screen, her couch, her
canopy;[16] apart, it may be, or close at hand, or at some middle
point, among them she lies ensconced. At times, with an effort taxing
all her strength, she will spring across to where some jutting point
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