| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: prairie farmer's proofs of social progress, but she dropped down
by the kitchen stove and insisted, "Please don't mind me."
When Mrs. Erdstrom had followed the doctor out of the room
Carol glanced in a friendly way at the grained pine cupboard,
the framed Lutheran Konfirmations Attest, the traces of fried
eggs and sausages on the dining table against the wall, and a
jewel among calendars, presenting not only a lithographic
young woman with cherry lips, and a Swedish advertisement
of Axel Egge's grocery, but also a thermometer and a match-
holder.
She saw that a boy of four or five was staring at her from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: There by a dim and dark Lethaean well
Young Charmides was lying; wearily
He plucked the blossoms from the asphodel,
And with its little rifled treasury
Strewed the dull waters of the dusky stream,
And watched the white stars founder, and the land was like a dream,
When as he gazed into the watery glass
And through his brown hair's curly tangles scanned
His own wan face, a shadow seemed to pass
Across the mirror, and a little hand
Stole into his, and warm lips timidly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: French philosopher had shown that all the phenomena of magnetism
then known might be reduced to the mutual attractions and repulsions
of electric currents. Magnetism had been produced from electricity,
and Faraday, who all his life long entertained a strong belief in
such reciprocal actions, now attempted to effect the evolution of
electricity from magnetism. Round a welded iron ring he placed two
distinct coils of covered wire, causing the coils to occupy opposite
halves of the ring. Connecting the ends of one of the coils with a
galvanometer, he found that the moment the ring was magnetised, by
sending a current through the other coil, the galvanometer needle
whirled round four or five times in succession. The action,
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