| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: floor. 'I don't think it can be the fault of the Paragon
Detergent,' said Washington, 'for I have tried it with everything.
It must be the ghost.' He accordingly rubbed out the stain a
second time, but the second morning it appeared again. The third
morning also it was there, though the library had been locked up at
night by Mr. Otis himself, and the key carried upstairs. The whole
family were now quite interested; Mr. Otis began to suspect that he
had been too dogmatic in his denial of the existence of ghosts,
Mrs. Otis expressed her intention of joining the Psychical Society,
and Washington prepared a long letter to Messrs. Myers and Podmore
on the subject of the Permanence of Sanguineous Stains when
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems
a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and
curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps
afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and
freely; even as she takes her rest, she turns and smiles; and there
is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a
wakeful influence goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all
the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock
first crows, not this time to announce the dawn, but like a
cheerful watchman speeding the course of night. Cattle awake on
the meadows; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: which looked as if it had been saved from the Ark, was
pushed near the wall beside the door.
Across this couch was thrown a ragged patchwork
quilt, and a pillow covered with calico rested on one
end, with the mark of a head dented deep in the center.
Jim shrugged his shoulders with a look of disgust,
stepped quickly to the door and called:
"Come on in, Kid!"
Nance fumbled her thin hands nervously and spoke
with the faintest suggestion of a sob in her voice.
"I ain't got nothin' for ye to eat----"
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