| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: mountain fell in on the night of the 11th of August, in the year
1772. Then, after a short and terrible earthquake, a bright cloud
suddenly covered the whole mountain. The people who dwelt around
it tried to escape; but before the poor souls could get away the
earth sunk beneath their feet, and the whole mountain fell in and
was swallowed up with a noise as if great cannon were being fired.
Forty villages and nearly 3000 people were destroyed, and where
the mountain had been was only a plain of red-hot stones. In the
same way, in the year 1698, the top of a mountain in Quito fell in
in a single night, leaving only two immense peaks of rock behind,
and pouring out great floods of mud mixed with dead fish; for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: pencil, in the act of swallowing a little green frog, and they
passed a rapt ten minutes in witnessing the progress of this
miniature drama, which culminated happily in the victim's escape,
and triumph of virtue.
"That," declared Blix as they climbed into the old buggy which was
to take them to the train, "was the one thing necessary. That
made the day perfect."
They reached the city at dusk, and sent their fish, lunch-basket,
and rods up to the Bessemers' flat by a messenger boy with an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: After that everything grew plain.
"King," I said, "if yonder be a mortal, she is about die. Only a
spirit can escape my aim. Watch now the centre of her forehead,
for there the bullet will strike!"
I lifted the pistol and appeared to cover the figure with much
care. As I did so, even from that distance I thought I saw a
look of terror in its eyes. Then I fired, with a little jerk of
the wrist sending the ball a good yard above her head.
"She is unharmed," cried a voice. "Macumazahn missed her."
"Macumazahn does not miss," I replied loftily. "If that at which
he aimed is unharmed, it is because it cannot be hit."
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