| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: what the little Pink Bear said, 'cause we don't want to make you feel
bad by doubting him. There must be a mistake, somewhere, and we
prob'ly don't understand just what the little Pink Bear said. Will
you let me ask him one more question?"
The Lavender Bear King was a good-natured bear, considering how he was
made and stuffed and jointed, so he accepted Dorothy's apology and
turned the crank and allowed the little girl to question his wee Pink
Bear.
"Is Ozma REALLY in this hole?" asked Dorothy.
"No," said the little Pink Bear.
This surprised everybody. Even the Bear King was now
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: However, History has nothing to do with this tale. Neither is the
moral justification or condemnation of conduct aimed at here. If
anything it is perhaps a little sympathy that the writer expects
for his buried youth, as he lives it over again at the end of his
insignificant course on this earth. Strange person - yet perhaps
not so very different from ourselves.
A few words as to certain facts may be added.
It may seem that he was plunged very abruptly into this long
adventure. But from certain passages (suppressed here because
mixed up with irrelevant matter) it appears clearly that at the
time of the meeting in the cafe, Mills had already gathered, in
The Arrow of Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: giving vent to his intoxication, he now and then fell into the dreamy
abstraction of a man who seems rapt in his own happiness.
After coffee had been served, Madame de la Baudraye and her mother
left the men to wander about the gardens. Monsieur Gravier then
remarked to Monsieur de Clagny:
"Did you observe that Madame de la Baudraye, after going out in a
muslin gown came home in a velvet?"
"As she got into the carriage at Cosne, the muslin dress caught on a
brass nail and was torn all the way down," replied Lousteau.
"Oh!" exclaimed Gatien, stricken to the heart by hearing two such
different explanations.
The Muse of the Department |
