| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: Space you begin to dream with open eyes,--to drift into delicious
oblivion of facts,--to forget the past, the present, the
substantial,--to comprehend nothing but the existence of that
infinite Blue Ghost as something into which you would wish to
melt utterly away forever....
And this day-magic of azure endures sometimes for months
together. Cloudlessly the dawn reddens up through a violet east:
there is no speck upon the blossoming of its Mystical
Rose,--unless it be the silhouette of some passing gull, whirling
his sickle-wings against the crimsoning. Ever, as the sun floats
higher, the flood shifts its color. Sometimes smooth and gray,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: Whereupon--"It would be awfully kind of you to come and stay there,"
said Lord Lambeth. He took a vague satisfaction in the circumstance
that Percy Beaumont had not heard him make the remark I have just recorded.
Mr. Westgate all this time had not, as they said at Newport, "come on."
His wife more than once announced that she expected him on the morrow;
but on the morrow she wandered about a little, with a telegram in her
jeweled fingers, declaring it was very tiresome that his business detained him
in New York; that he could only hope the Englishmen were having a good time.
"I must say," said Mrs. Westgate, "that it is no thanks to him if you are."
And she went on to explain, while she continued that slow-paced
promenade which enabled her well-adjusted skirts to display themselves
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: heart whose death _might_ bring about her death and that of
another."
"You are very subtle, Zikali," I said in astonishment.
"So you hold because I am very simple, who understand the spirit
of man--and some other things. For the rest, had you not
believed that these two were dead, you would never have left
Zululand. You would have tried to escape to get to them and have
been killed. Is it not so?"
"Yes, I think I should have tried, Zikali. But why did you keep
them prisoner?"
"For the same reason that I still keep them--and you--to hold
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