| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: Clouston has called down the curse on him and his house, byre and
stable, man, guest, and master, wife, miss, or bairn -- black,
black be their fall!"
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch
sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone. I stood where she
left me, with my hair on end. In those days folk still believed
in witches and trembled at a curse; and this one, falling so pat,
like a wayside omen, to arrest me ere I carried out my purpose,
took the pith out of my legs.
I sat me down and stared at the house of Shaws. The more I
looked, the pleasanter that country-side appeared; being all set
Kidnapped |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: and bring him over to beg pardon," cried Jo, burning to execute
immediate justice. But her mother held her back, saying, with
a look she seldom wore...
"Stop, Jo, you must clear yourself first. You have played
so many pranks that I am afraid you have had a hand in this."
"On my word, Mother, I haven't! I never saw that note
before, and don't know anything about it, as true as I live!"
said Jo, so earnestly that they believed her. "If I had taken
part in it I'd have done it better than this, and have written
a sensible note. I should think you'd have known Mr. Brooke
wouldn't write such stuff as that," she added, scornfully
Little Women |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: Lord Melville's and Lord Harcourt's and the Leveson-Gowers, he
began to have 'bumptious notions,' and his head was 'somewhat
turned with fine people'; as to some extent it remained throughout
his innocent and honourable life.
In this frame of mind the boy was appointed to the CONQUEROR,
Captain Davie, humorously known as Gentle Johnnie. The captain had
earned this name by his style of discipline, which would have
figured well in the pages of Marryat: 'Put the prisoner's head in
a bag and give him another dozen!' survives as a specimen of his
commands; and the men were often punished twice or thrice in a
week. On board the ship of this disciplinarian, Charles and his
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