| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: engaged her attention. She was sitting by Edward, and
in taking his tea from Mrs. Dashwood, his hand passed
so directly before her, as to make a ring, with a plait
of hair in the centre, very conspicuous on one of his fingers.
"I never saw you wear a ring before, Edward," she cried.
"Is that Fanny's hair? I remember her promising to give
you some. But I should have thought her hair had been darker."
Marianne spoke inconsiderately what she really felt--
but when she saw how much she had pained Edward, her own
vexation at her want of thought could not be surpassed
by his. He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary
Sense and Sensibility |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Seth's - a leetle t'other side.'
Armitage, with Rice and Morgan,
started to walk in the direction indicated; and most of the natives
followed slowly. The sky was growing lighter, and there were signs
that the storm had worn itself away. When Armitage inadvertently
took a wrong direction, Joe Osborn warned him and walked ahead
to show the right one. Courage and confidence were mounting, though
the twilight of the almost perpendicular wooded hill which lay
towards the end of their short cut, and among whose fantastic
ancient trees they had to scramble as if up a ladder, put these
qualities to a severe test.
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: depressing influences that once I nursed as a heritage of
humanity than a fop would voluntarily wallow in a filthy gutter.
"There is no doubt in my mind that pure Christianity and pure
Buddhism, and the Mental Sciences and all Religions fundamentally
teach what has been a discovery to me; but none of them have
presented it in the light of a simple and easy process of
elimination. At one time I wondered if the elimination would not
yield to indifference and sloth. In my experience, the contrary
is the result. I feel such an increased desire to do something
useful that it seems as if I were a boy again and the energy for
play had returned. I could fight as readily as (and better than)
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