| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: And then, through ashes and cinders, the melted lava burrows out,
twisting and twirling like an enormous fiery earth-worm, till it
gets to the air outside, and runs off down the mountain in a
stream of fire. And so you may see (as are to be seen on Vesuvius
now) two eruptions at once--one of burning stones above, and one
of melted lava below.
And what is lava?
That, I think, I must tell you another time. For when I speak of
it I shall have to tell you more about Madam How, and her ways of
making the ground on which you stand, than I can say just now.
But if you want to know (as I dare say you do) what the eruption
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Flooded with sheeny waves the marble floor,
When from his nook up leapt the venturous lad,
And flinging wide the cedar-carven door
Beheld an awful image saffron-clad
And armed for battle! the gaunt Griffin glared
From the huge helm, and the long lance of wreck and ruin flared
Like a red rod of flame, stony and steeled
The Gorgon's head its leaden eyeballs rolled,
And writhed its snaky horrors through the shield,
And gaped aghast with bloodless lips and cold
In passion impotent, while with blind gaze
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: for the man increased. As she leaned her head on her hand, a
fleeting vision of her own girlhood, with its mournful climacteric
and tragic ebb, was vouchsafed her, and for the moment she was
minded to read him a lesson from it. God! it must be less than
human brute who could not be held by such a tale, told as she
could tell it, but--bah! He was not worth it, nor worth the pain
to her. The candle was positioned just right, and even as she
thought of these things sacredly shameful to her, he was
pleasuring in the transparent pinkiness of her ear. She noted his
eye, took the cue, and turned her head till the clean profile of
the face was presented. Not the least was that profile among her
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