| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: feet were seen to be shod with slippers made of the feathers of
humming-birds.
When she arrived in front of the pavilion she removed her veil.
Behold! she seemed to be Herodias herself, as she had appeared in the
days of her blooming youth.
Immediately the damsel began to dance before the tetrarch. Her slender
feet took dainty steps to the rhythm of a flute and a pair of Indian
bells. Her round white arms seemed ever beckoning and striving to
entice to her side some youth who was fleeing from her allurements.
She appeared to pursue him, with movements light as a butterfly; her
whole mien was like that of an inquisitive Psyche, or a floating
Herodias |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: did her down. But she catched the quiet between, an' she
cries out, "What is the Trouble on the Marsh that's been
lying down with my heart an' arising with my body this
month gone?" She felt a liddle hand lay hold on her
gown-hem, an' she stooped to the pull o' that liddle hand.'
Tom Shoesmith spread his huge fist before the fire and
smiled at it as he went on.
"'Will the sea drown the Marsh?" she says. She was a
Marsh woman first an' foremost.
"'No," says the liddle voice. "Sleep sound for all o' that."
"'Is the Plague comin' to the Marsh?" she says. Them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: again. "But you can get, with a move, greater advantages?"
"I can get in the suburbs cheaper lodgings. I live with my mother.
We need some space. There's a particular place that has other
inducements."
He just hesitated. "Where is it?"
"Oh quite out of YOUR way. You'd never have time."
"But I tell you I'd go anywhere. Don't you believe it?"
"Yes, for once or twice. But you'd soon see it wouldn't do for
you."
He smoked and considered; seemed to stretch himself a little and,
with his legs out, surrender himself comfortably. "Well, well,
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