| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: These pearls grew within the shells of big oysters,
and the people raked the oysters from their watery
beds, sought out the milky pearls and carried them
dutifully to their King. Therefore, once every year His
Majesty was able to send six of his boats, with sixty
rowers and many sacks of the valuable pearls, to the
Kingdom of Rinkitink, where there was a city called
Gilgad, in which King Rinkitink's palace stood on a
rocky headland and served, with its high towers, as a
lighthouse to guide sailors to the harbor. In Gilgad
the pearls from Pingaree were purchased by the King's
Rinkitink In Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: Y.M. Yes. I have dreams that are like that. Dreams that
are just like real life; dreams in which there are several
persons with distinctly differentiated characters--inventions of
my mind and yet strangers to me: a vulgar person; a refined one;
a wise person; a fool; a cruel person; a kind and compassionate
one; a quarrelsome person; a peacemaker; old persons and young;
beautiful girls and homely ones. They talk in character, each
preserves his own characteristics. There are vivid fights, vivid
and biting insults, vivid love-passages; there are tragedies and
comedies, there are griefs that go to one's heart, there are
sayings and doings that make you laugh: indeed, the whole thing
What is Man? |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: ransomed until everything was squeezed from the wretched
inhabitants.
Here affairs were like to have taken a turn, for when Captain
Morgan came up from Gibraltar he found three great men-of-war
lying in the entrance to the lake awaiting his coming. Seeing
that he was hemmed in in the narrow sheet of water, Captain
Morgan was inclined to compromise matters, even offering to
relinquish all the plunder he had gained if he were allowed to
depart in peace. But no; the Spanish admiral would hear nothing
of this. Having the pirates, as he thought, securely in his
grasp, he would relinquish nothing, but would sweep them from the
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
