| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: first part.
Olive Schreiner.
Matjesfontein,
Cape Colony,
South Africa.
November, 1890.
CONTENTS.
I. The Lost Joy.
II. The Hunter (From "The Story of of an African Farm").
III. The Gardens of Pleasure.
IV. In a Far-off World.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire
me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark
cloud which brooded over me. "Do you think, Victor," said he,
"that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I
loved your brother"--tears came into his eyes as he spoke--"but is
it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from
augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?
It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents
improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily
usefulness, without which no man is fit for society."
This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case;
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: to the Toll House, where the Lakeport stage called daily; it
was the best place for my health, besides. Rufe had been
consumptive, and was now quite a strong man, ain't it? In
short, the place and all its accompaniments seemed made for
us on purpose.
He took me to his back door, whence, as from every point of
Calistoga, Mount Saint Helena could be seen towering in the
air. There, in the nick, just where the eastern foothills
joined the mountain, and she herself began to rise above the
zone of forest - there was Silverado. The name had already
pleased me; the high station pleased me still more. I began
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