| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: passed; and after supper his three cousins came into the
hall, and Jason thought that he should like well enough to
have one of them for his wife.
But at last he said to Pelias, 'Why do you look so sad, my
uncle? And what did you mean just now when you said that
this was a doleful kingdom, and its ruler a miserable man?'
Then Pelias sighed heavily again and again and again, like a
man who had to tell some dreadful story, and was afraid to
begin; but at last -
'For seven long years and more have I never known a quiet
night; and no more will he who comes after me, till the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: will swim in the water; I must be clean, I must be clean."
So he pulled off all his clothes in such haste that he tore some of
them, which was easy enough with such ragged old things. And he
put his poor hot sore feet into the water; and then his legs; and
the farther he went in, the more the church-bells rang in his head.
"Ah," said Tom, "I must be quick and wash myself; the bells are
ringing quite loud now; and they will stop soon, and then the door
will be shut, and I shall never be able to get in at all."
Tom was mistaken: for in England the church doors are left open
all service time, for everybody who likes to come in, Churchman or
Dissenter; ay, even if he were a Turk or a Heathen; and if any man
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: And this she does so well that there is no spring in the world
like the Jungle spring.
There is one day when all things are tired, and the very smells,
as they drift on the heavy air, are old and used. One cannot
explain this, but it feels so. Then there is another day--to the
eye nothing whatever has changed--when all the smells are new
and delightful, and the whiskers of the Jungle People quiver to
their roots, and the winter hair comes away from their sides in
long, draggled locks. Then, perhaps, a little rain falls,
and all the trees and the bushes and the bamboos and the mosses
and the juicy-leaved plants wake with a noise of growing that
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