| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: Sandringham Hill was once a sea-cliff, and Dersingham Bog at its
foot a shallow sea; and therefore that the land has risen there.
How, again, at Hunstanton Station there is a beach of sea-shells
twenty feet above high-water mark, showing that the land has risen
there likewise. And how, farther north again, at Brancaster,
there are forests of oak, and fir, and alder, with their roots
still in the soil, far below high-water mark, and only uncovered
at low tide; which is a plain sign that there the land has sunk.
You surely recollect the sunken forest at Brancaster, and the
beautiful shells we picked up in its gullies, and the millions of
live Pholases boring into the clay and peat which once was firm
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: To their dull ears so musicless and thin
That they will have no joy of it, but ye
To whose wan cheeks now creeps the lingering smile,
Ye who have learned who Eros is, - O listen yet awhile.
A little space he let his greedy eyes
Rest on the burnished image, till mere sight
Half swooned for surfeit of such luxuries,
And then his lips in hungering delight
Fed on her lips, and round the towered neck
He flung his arms, nor cared at all his passion's will to check.
Never I ween did lover hold such tryst,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: learns that I am ill, I believe her capable of hurrying here and
compromising herself. I made an effort; I wrote a second letter, and
carried it myself, for my confidential servant was now gone. The river
lay between us. I had to cross Paris; but at last, within a suitable
distance of her house, I caught sight of a messenger; I charged him to
have the note sent up to her at once, and I had the happy idea of
driving past her door in a hackney cab to see whether she might not by
chance receive the two letters together. At the moment when I arrived
it was two o'clock; the great gate opened to admit a carriage. Whose?
--That of the stalking-horse!
"It is fifteen years since--well, even while I tell the tale, I, the
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