| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: and the child be run over. Now look here, just get into this cab,
and I'll drive you safe to the hospital. Don't you see
the rain is coming on?"
"No, sir, no; I can't do that, thank you, I have only just money enough
to get back with. Please tell me the way."
"Look you here, missis," said Jerry, "I've got a wife and dear children
at home, and I know a father's feelings; now get you into that cab,
and I'll take you there for nothing. I'd be ashamed of myself
to let a woman and a sick child run a risk like that."
"Heaven bless you!" said the woman, and burst into tears.
"There, there, cheer up, my dear, I'll soon take you there;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: all that is well- ordered in his house has cost him, the host, no
trouble whatever, but comes of itself. Darya Alexandrovna was
well aware that even porridge for the children's breakfast does
not come of itself, and that therefore, where so complicated and
magnificent a style of luxury was maintained, some one must give
earnest attention to its organization. And from the glance with
which Alexey Kirillovitch scanned the table, from the way he
nodded to the butler, and offered Darya Alexandrovna her choice
between cold soup and hot soup, she saw that it was all organized
and maintained by the care of the master of the house himself. It
was evident that it all rested no more upon Anna than upon
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: The glancing graver swerved aside,
Fast flowed the artist's vital tide!
And now the apologetic bard
Demands indulgence for his pard!
Poem: VI - THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN
The echoing bridge you here may see,
The pouring lynn, the waving tree,
The eager angler fresh from town -
Above, the contumelious clown.
The angler plies his line and rod,
The clodpole stands with many a nod, -
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