| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: searched throughout his kingdom for the most desirable women he
could find. He found pretty ones and witty ones and laughing ones
and moody ones and smart ones and elegant ones and plain ones and
philosophical ones and decorated ones--women of every proportion,
size, color, personality, and talent, and he married a hundred of
them, some of whom loved him even more than those among the first
few dozen he was already married to. And the king found much
pleasure in his wives, but he was still not truly happy.
"The king will find happiness only in wisdom," said one of the
king's scholars. "For it is written that 'truth is a joy unto
itself.'" So the king applied himself to books of wisdom, and to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: To whom sad Eve, with shame nigh overwhelmed,
Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge
Bold or loquacious, thus abashed replied.
The Serpent me beguiled, and I did eat.
Which when the Lord God heard, without delay
To judgement he proceeded on the accused
Serpent, though brute; unable to transfer
The guilt on him, who made him instrument
Of mischief, and polluted from the end
Of his creation; justly then accursed,
As vitiated in nature: More to know
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: as a night's lodging for Johann Knoll.
There was not the slightest doubt in Muller's mind that this part
of the tramp's story was true, for by a natural process of
elimination he knew there was nothing to be gained by inventing any
such tale. Besides which the detective himself had been to look at
the shed. His well-known pedantic thoroughness would not permit
him to take any one's word for anything that he might find out for
himself, In his investigations on Tuesday morning he had already
seen the half-ruined shed, now he knew that it contained a broken
bench.
Thus far, therefore, Knoll's story was proved to be true-but there
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