| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: float in air, the navigator became giddy as his eye penetrated
through the crystal flood, and beheld submarine gardens, or beds
of shells, or gilded fishes gliding among tufts and thickets of
seaweed.]
[Footnote f: See Appendix, B.]
North America appeared under a very different aspect; there
everything was grave, serious, and solemn: it seemed created to
be the domain of intelligence, as the South was that of sensual
delight. A turbulent and foggy ocean washed its shores. It was
girt round by a belt of granite rocks, or by wide tracts of sand.
The foliage of its woods was dark and gloomy, for they were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: But years pass on with the strong and the brave as with the
feeble and the timid. In process of time the Laird's Jock grew
incapable of wielding his weapons, and finally of all active
exertion, even of the most ordinary kind. The disabled champion
became at length totally bedridden, and entirely dependent for
his comfort on the pious duties of an only daughter, his
perpetual attendant and companion.
Besides this dutiful child, the Laird's Jock had an only son,
upon whom devolved the perilous task of leading the clan to
battle, and maintaining the warlike renown of his native country,
which was now disputed by the English upon many occasions. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: oven to dry.
Herr Brechenmacher yawned and stretched himself, and then looked up at her,
grinning.
"Remember the night that we came home? You were an innocent one, you
were."
"Get along! Such a time ago I forget." Well she remembered.
"Such a clout on the ear as you gave me...But I soon taught you."
"Oh, don't start talking. You've too much beer. Come to bed."
He tilted back in his chair, chuckling with laughter.
"That's not what you said to me that night. God, the trouble you gave me!"
But the little Frau seized the candle and went into the next room. The
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