| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: priest, enlightened Sylvie as to the dangers she would incur. Sylvie
trembled; she was terribly afraid of death, an idea which shakes all
celibates to their centre. But just at this time the Martignac
ministry came into power,--a Liberal victory which overthrew the
Villele administration. The Vinet party now carried their heads high
in Provins. Vinet himself became a personage. The Liberals prophesied
his advancement; he would certainly be deputy and attorney-general. As
for the colonel, he would be made mayor of Provins. Ah, to reign as
Madame Garceland, the wife of the present mayor, now reigned! Sylvie
could not hold out against that hope; she determined to consult a
doctor, though the proceeding would only cover her with ridicule. To
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: For seasons, and for days, and circling years;
And let them be for lights, as I ordain
Their office in the firmament of Heaven,
To give light on the Earth; and it was so.
And God made two great lights, great for their use
To Man, the greater to have rule by day,
The less by night, altern; and made the stars,
And set them in the firmament of Heaven
To illuminate the Earth, and rule the day
In their vicissitude, and rule the night,
And light from darkness to divide. God saw,
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: circumstances so occurred that two youths found themselves lost
together in the desert and forced to spend the night without the
services of modern technology.
"What a terrible thing," said the first one. "We're stuck out here
all alone among who knows what frightening stuff."
"This is great," said the other. "What an adventure. I can't wait
to see what happens."
As the light began to fade, the youths happened upon a snake,
sitting on a rock to get the last warmth it could find before the
cold night set in.
"Oh, no!" said the first youth. "Out here it's just one problem
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