| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: house, and beside us, in the steppe, were erected two felt
kibitkas, or Tatar frame tents, in which [illustration
omitted] [page intentionally blank] our Bashkir, Muhammed
Shah Romanytch, lived with his wives.
Morning and evening they used to tie the mares up outside
the kibitkas, where they were milked by veiled women, who
then hid themselves from the sight of the men behind a brilliant
chintz curtain, and made the kumiss.
The kumiss was bitter and very nasty, but my father and my
uncle Stephen Behrs were very fond of it, and drank it in large
quantities.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: the last.
"The thieves who stole our rye have been found," he announced
with a smile. "The magistrate arrested three peasants at Pestrovo
yesterday."
"Go away!" I shouted at him; and a propos of nothing, I picked up
the cake-basket and flung it on the floor.
IV
After lunch I rubbed my hands, and thought I must go to my wife
and tell her that I was going away. Why? Who cared? Nobody cares,
I answered, but why shouldn't I tell her, especially as it would
give her nothing but pleasure? Besides, to go away after our
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: Marsay had wonderfully represented the three men.
"The three priests fully understood one another," he continued,
resuming his narrative. "Carnot no doubt looked at his colleagues and
the ex-consul in a dignified manner. He must, however, have felt
bewildered in his own mind.
"'Do you believe in the success of the army?' Sieyes said to him.
"'We may expect everything from Bonaparte,' replied the minister of
war; 'he has crossed the Alps.'
"'At this moment,' said the minister of foreign affairs, with
deliberate slowness, 'he is playing his last stake.'
"'Come, let's speak out,' said Fouche; 'what shall we do if the First
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