| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: one is made of meat and bone. Had you no friends in
that corner of the Gillikin Country? Was it not
homelike and comfortable?"
To hear a man stuffed with straw speak, and speak so
well, quite startled Woot, and perhaps he stared a bit
rudely at the Scarecrow. But after a moment he replied:
"I had home and friends, your Honorable Strawness,
but they were so quiet and happy and comfortable that I
found them dismally stupid. Nothing in that corner of
Oz interested me, but I believed that in other parts of
the country I would find strange people and see new
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch
the porte cochere during the day; he contented himself with going
at night to gaze upon the red light of the windows. At times
he saw shadows flit across them, and his heart began to beat.
On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was
no light in them.
"Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark.
Can they have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight.
Until one in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the
third story, and no one entered the house.
He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind.
Les Miserables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: hath not a sweeter Creature: she might lye by an Emperours
side, and command him Taskes
Iago. Nay, that's not your way
Othe. Hang her, I do but say what she is: so delicate
with her Needle: an admirable Musitian. Oh she will
sing the Sauagenesse out of a Beare: of so high and plenteous
wit, and inuention?
Iago. She's the worse for all this
Othe. Oh, a thousand, a thousand times:
And then of so gentle a condition?
Iago. I too gentle
Othello |
