| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: The pair went out beneath the portico and mounted a spiral stone
staircase, the round well of which rose through a high turret, beside
the hall in which they had been sitting. At the first floor up the
young man paused.
"No, no," said Cornelius. "The devil! this nook is the place where the
king takes his ease."
The architect had constructed the room given to the apprentice under
the pointed roof of the tower in which the staircase wound. It was a
little room, all of stone, cold and without ornament of any kind. The
tower stood in the middle of the facade on the courtyard, which, like
the courtyards of all provincial houses, was narrow and dark. At the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: chill official manner, and with the same commonplace
advances, the same dogged observance of traditional
behaviour. The shape of their raiment is a burden almost
greater than they can bear, and they halt in their walk to
preserve the due adjustment of their trouser-knees, till one
would fancy he had mixed in a procession of Jacobs. We
speak, of course, for ourselves; but we would as soon
associate with a herd of sprightly apes as with these gloomy
modern beaux. Alas, that our Mirabels, our Valentines, even
our Brummels, should have left their mantles upon nothing
more amusing!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: He pressed against her side softly but firmly, and felt her start
at the contact. Again he waited, till a questioning hand slipped
down upon his head and paused among the curls. The next instant
the hand turned his face gently upward, and he was gazing into
Sipsu's eyes.
She was quite collected. Changing her position casually, she
threw an elbow well over on the skin bale, rested her body upon
it, and arranged her parka. In this way he was completely
concealed. Then, and still most casually, she reclined across
him, so that he could breathe between her arm and breast, and when
she lowered her head her ear pressed lightly against his lips.
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