| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: over to this prisoner's place and all around about there
a good while, hoping I would run across my poor brother,
and never knowing he was out of his troubles and gone
to a better shore --" So he broke down and choked up again,
and most all the women was crying now. Pretty soon
he got another start and says: "But it warn't no use;
so at last I went home and tried to get some sleep,
but couldn't. Well, in a day or two everybody was uneasy,
and they got to talking about this prisoner's threats,
and took to the idea, which I didn't take no stock in,
that my brother was murdered so they hunted around and tried
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: Farewell, my beauteous Sister: Pyrithous,
Keepe the feast full, bate not an howre on't.
PERITHOUS.
Sir,
Ile follow you at heeles; The Feasts solempnity
Shall want till your returne.
THESEUS.
Cosen, I charge you
Boudge not from Athens; We shall be returning
Ere you can end this Feast, of which, I pray you,
Make no abatement; once more, farewell all.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: him up still more; and the perspiration ran out of the ends of his
fingers and toes, and washed him cleaner than he had been for a
whole year. But, of course, he dirtied everything, terribly as he
went. There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever
since. And there have been more black beetles in Vendale since
than ever were known before; all, of course, owing to Tom's having
blacked the original papa of them all, just as he was setting off
to be married, with a sky-blue coat and scarlet leggins, as smart
as a gardener's dog with a polyanthus in his mouth.
At last he got to the bottom. But, behold, it was not the bottom -
as people usually find when they are coming down a mountain. For
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