| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: ance."
He therefore cautiously threw a stone at the object, which
continued motionless. "It's nae living thing, after a'," said
Hobbie, approaching, "but the very bag o' siller he flung out o'
the window yesterday! and that other queer lang creature has
just brought it sae muckle farther on the way to me. He then
advanced and lifted the heavy fur pouch, which was quite full of
gold. "Mercy on us!" said Hobbie, whose heart fluttered between
glee at the revival of his hopes and prospects in life, and
suspicion of the purpose for which this assistance was afforded
him---"Mercy on us! it's an awfu' thing to touch what has been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Then stirre Demetrius vp with bitter wrong;
And sometime raile thou like Demetrius;
And from each other looke thou leade them thus,
Till ore their browes, death-counterfeiting, sleepe
With leaden legs, and Battie-wings doth creepe:
Then crush this hearbe into Lysanders eie,
Whose liquor hath this vertuous propertie,
To take from thence all error, with his might,
and make his eie-bals role with wonted sight.
When they next wake, all this derision
Shall seeme a dreame, and fruitless vision,
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: might have prevented, or would at least modify, this malady, which was
slight at first, but had greatly increased from year to year. He
wanted to cure it, and would sometimes take baths or drink some
prescribed potion; but, hurried along on the current of his business,
he soon neglected the care of his person. Sometimes he thought of
suspending work for a time, travelling about, and visiting the noted
baths for such diseases; but where is the hunter after millions who is
willing to stop short?
In that blazing furnace shone two gray eyes rayed with green lines
starting from the pupils, and speckled with brown spots,--two
implacable eyes, full of resolution, rectitude, and shrewd
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