| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Tattooed or woaded, winter-clad in skins,
Raw from the prime, and crushing down his mate;
As yet we find in barbarous isles, and here
Among the lowest.'
Thereupon she took
A bird's-eye-view of all the ungracious past;
Glanced at the legendary Amazon
As emblematic of a nobler age;
Appraised the Lycian custom, spoke of those
That lay at wine with Lar and Lucumo;
Ran down the Persian, Grecian, Roman lines
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: over, appeared to be much attached to his master.
In a moment more, Michael and Nadia were seated in
the kibitka. Michael held out his hands as if to feel for
those of Pigassof. "You wish to shake my hands!" said
Nicholas. "There they are, little father! shake them as
long as it will give you any pleasure."
The kibitka moved on; the horse, which Nicholas never
touched with the whip, ambled along. Though Michael did
not gain any in speed, at least some fatigue was spared to
Nadia.
Such was the exhaustion of the young girl, that, rocked
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: of Richard, who, he consents, shall bear the name of King
Guardian of Jerusalem. Yet further, strange and incredible as
you may think it, know, Sir Knight--for to your honour I can
commit even that almost incredible secret--know that Saladin will
put a sacred seal on this happy union betwixt the bravest and
noblest of Frangistan and Asia, by raising to the rank of his
royal spouse a Christian damsel, allied in blood to King Richard,
and known by the name of the Lady Edith of Plantagenet." [This
may appear so extraordinary and improbable a proposition that it
is necessary to say such a one was actually made. The
historians, however, substitute the widowed Queen of Naples,
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