| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: past Diana and away into the darkness of the yard.
"He's gone to harness the sorrel mare to go to Carmody for the
doctor," said Anne, who was hurrying on hood and jacket. "I know
it as well as if he'd said so. Matthew and I are such kindred
spirits I can read his thoughts without words at all."
"I don't believe he'll find the doctor at Carmody," sobbed Diana.
"I know that Dr. Blair went to town and I guess Dr. Spencer
would go too. Young Mary Joe never saw anybody with croup and
Mrs. Lynde is away. Oh, Anne!"
"Don't cry, Di," said Anne cheerily. "I know exactly what to do
for croup. You forget that Mrs. Hammond had twins three times.
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Czarover sat on a throne cut from a solid block of white marble and
decorated with purple silk hangings and gold tassels.
The ruler of these people was combing his eyebrows when our friends
entered the throne room and stood before him, but he put the comb in
his pocket and examined the strangers with evident curiosity. Then he
said, "Dear me, what a surprise! You have really shocked me. For no
outsider has ever before come to our City of Herku, and I cannot
imagine why you have ventured to do so."
"We are looking for Ozma, the Supreme Ruler of the Land of Oz,"
replied the Wizard.
"Do you see her anywhere around here?" asked the Czarover.
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: remember that I free you from all engagements, and will allow you to
let the blame of such a rupture rest on me."
She put such dignity into this expression of her generosity that Paul
believed in her disinterestedness and in her ignorance of the strange
fact that his notary had just told to him. He pressed the young girl's
hand and kissed it like a man to whom love is more precious than
wealth. Natalie left the room.
"Sac-a-papier! Monsieur le comte, you are committing a great folly,"
said the old notary, rejoining his client.
Paul grew thoughtful. He had expected to unite Natalie's fortune with
his own and thus obtain for his married life an income of one hundred
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