| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: at a plan of them would be labour in vain.
The knowledge of the other gods is beyond us, and we can only accept the
traditions of the ancients, who were the children of the gods, as they
said; for surely they must have known their own ancestors. Although they
give no proof, we must believe them as is customary. They tell us that
Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven; that Phoreys,
Cronos, and Rhea came in the next generation, and were followed by Zeus and
Here, whose brothers and children are known to everybody.
When all of them, both those who show themselves in the sky, and those who
retire from view, had come into being, the Creator addressed them thus:--
'Gods, sons of gods, my works, if I will, are indissoluble. That which is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: He sat, with the patience of his age and his new infirmity, waiting
for Lucy to bring Harrison Miller, and had it not been for the
trembling of his hands Bassett would have thought him calm and even
placid.
During the recital that followed somewhat later David did not move.
He sat silent, his eyes closed, his face set.
"That's about all," Bassett finished. "He had been perfectly clear
in his head all day, and it took headwork to get over the pass. But,
as I say, he had simply dropped ten years, and was back to the Lucas
trouble. I tried everything I knew, used your name and would have
used the young lady's, because sometimes that sort of thing strikes
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: I arranged for my ball dress at a shop in Leith Street, where I was
not served ill, cut out Rowley from his seclusion, and was ready
along with him at the trysting-place, the corner of Duke Street and
York Place, by a little after two. The University was represented
in force: eleven persons, including ourselves, Byfield the
aeronaut, and the tall lad, Forbes, whom I had met on the Sunday
morning, bedewed with tallow, at the 'Hunters' Rest.' I was
introduced; and we set off by way of Newhaven and the sea beach; at
first through pleasant country roads, and afterwards along a
succession of bays of a fairylike prettiness, to our destination -
Cramond on the Almond - a little hamlet on a little river,
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