| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: And seemed to be in some entranced swoon
Till through the open roof above the full and brimming moon
Flooded with sheeny waves the marble floor,
When from his nook up leapt the venturous lad,
And flinging wide the cedar-carven door
Beheld an awful image saffron-clad
And armed for battle! the gaunt Griffin glared
From the huge helm, and the long lance of wreck and ruin flared
Like a red rod of flame, stony and steeled
The Gorgon's head its leaden eyeballs rolled,
And writhed its snaky horrors through the shield,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "I have suffered even more," she answered simply, "for I
thought that you did not love me, and I was helpless.
I couldn't come to you and demand that my love be returned,
as you have just come to me. Just now when you went away
hope went with you. I was wretched, terrified, miserable,
and my heart was breaking. I wept, and I have not done
that before since my mother died," and now I saw that there
was the moisture of tears about her eyes. It was near
to making me cry myself when I thought of all that poor
child had been through. Motherless and unprotected;
hunted across a savage, primeval world by that hideous
At the Earth's Core |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: before, but could not find her. He shouted after her, but she did
not answer; he asked all the other children, but they had not seen
her; and at last he went up to the top of the water and began
crying and screaming for Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid - which perhaps was
the best thing to do - for she came in a moment.
"Oh!" said Tom. "Oh dear, oh dear! I have been naughty to Ellie,
and I have killed her - I know I have killed her."
"Not quite that," said the fairy; "but I have sent her away home,
and she will not come back again for I do not know how long."
And at that Tom cried so bitterly that the salt sea was swelled
with his tears, and the tide was .3,954,620,819 of an inch higher
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