| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: falling in the shaft.
We wandered to and fro. We searched among that drift of
lumber-wood and iron, nails and rails, and sleepers and the
wheels of tracks. We gazed up the cleft into the bosom of
the mountain. We sat by the margin of the dump and saw, far
below us, the green treetops standing still in the clear air.
Beautiful perfumes, breaths of bay, resin, and nutmeg, came
to us more often and grew sweeter and sharper as the
afternoon declined. But still there was no word of Hanson.
I set to with pick and shovel, and deepened the pool behind
the shaft, till we were sure of sufficient water for the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: water, too, and pick things up that must be bad
for their stomachs, when they ought to have their
milk regularly in nice, clean saucers. No, Arnold
Carruth, what we have got to do is to steal Mr.
Jim Simmons's cats and get them in nice homes
where they can earn their living catching mice and
be well cared for."
"Steal cats?" said Arnold.
"Yes, steal cats, in order to do right," said Johnny
Trumbull, and his expression was heroic, even
exalted.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: herself, and it hurts that kind for people to be rude to them."
"I'll have that doctor hanged."
"Marse Tom, she don't WANT him hanged. She - "
"Well, then, I'll have him boiled in oil."
"But she don't WANT him boiled. I - "
"Oh, very well, very well, I only want to please her; I'll have him
skinned."
"Why, SHE don't want him skinned; it would break her heart. Now -
"
"Woman, this is perfectly unreasonable. What in the nation DOES
she want?"
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