| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: so that she had the feeling, which sometimes came to her in
dreams, of skimming miraculously over short bright waves.
The air, too, seemed to break in waves against her, sweeping
by on its current all the slanted lights and moist sharp
perfumes of the failing day. She panted to herself: "This
is nonsense!" her blood hummed back: "But it's glorious!"
and she sped on till she saw that Owen had caught sight of
her and was striding back in her direction.
Then she stopped and waited, flushed and laughing, her hands
clasped against the letter in her breast.
"No, I'm not mad," she called out; "but there's something in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: more glass.
"We've not met for so long," he said.
But the Virginian, the black-headed guy who had set all this
nonsense going, said No to Steve. "I have got to stay
responsible," was his excuse to his friend. And the friend looked
at me. Therefore I surmised that the Judge's trustworthy man
found me an embarrassment to his holiday. But if he did, he never
showed it to me. He had been sent to meet a stranger and drive
him to Sunk Creek in safety, and this charge he would allow no
temptation to imperil. He nodded good night to me. "If there's
anything I can do for yu', you'll tell me."
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: these daemons and deities were so near them, might it not be possible to
behold them? They seemed to have given up caring much for the world and
its course -
Effugerant adytis templisque relictis
Di quibus imperium steterat.
The old priests used to make them appear--perhaps they might do it
again. And if spirit could act directly and preternaturally on matter,
in spite of the laws of matter, perhaps matter might act on spirit.
After all, were matter and spirit so absolutely different? Was not
spirit some sort of pervading essence, some subtle ethereal fluid,
differing from matter principally in being less gross and dense? This
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