| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: CROWNED
TO A CASTILIAN SONG
BROADWAY
A WINTER BLUEJAY
IN A RESTAURANT
JOY
IN A RAILROAD STATION
IN THE TRAIN
TO ONE AWAY
SONG
DEEP IN THE NIGHT
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: Misfortunes I have undergone, I was once beautiful. But lovely
as I was the Graces of my Person were the least of my
Perfections. Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was
Mistress. When in the Convent, my progress had always exceeded my
instructions, my Acquirements had been wonderfull for my age, and
I had shortly surpassed my Masters.
In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered; it was
the Rendez-vous of every good Quality and of every noble
sentiment.
A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my
Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of
Love and Friendship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: food. 'Eat, eat, eat!' he cried; 'that's the bottom and the top.'
By an odd irony of circumstance, he grew so much interested in this
discussion that he let the hour slip by unnoticed and had to go
without his tea. He had enough sense and humour, indeed he had no
lack of either, to have chuckled over this himself in private; and
even to me he referred to it with the shadow of a smile.
Mackay was a hot bigot. He would not hear of religion. I have seen
him waste hours of time in argument with all sorts of poor human
creatures who understood neither him nor themselves, and he had had
the boyishness to dissect and criticise even so small a matter as the
riddler's definition of mind. He snorted aloud with zealotry and the
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