| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Do you really expect to get to Oz?" inquired the shaggy man, taking
a drink of cold tea.
"I don't know just what to 'spect," answered the child, seriously; "but
I've noticed if I happen to get lost I'm almost sure to come to the
Land of Oz in the end, somehow 'r other; so I may get there this time.
But I can't promise, you know; all I can do is wait and see."
"Will the Scarecrow scare me?" asked Button-Bright.
"No; 'cause you're not a crow," she returned. "He has the loveliest
smile you ever saw--only it's painted on and he can't help it."
Luncheon being over they started again upon their journey, the shaggy
man, Dorothy and Button-Bright walking soberly along, side by side, and
The Road to Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: study, which are as yet but imperfectly known! Then, without going
any further, that mountain in the horizon. That is Snæfell."
"Ah!" said my uncle, as coolly as he was able, "is that Snæfell?"
"Yes; one of the most curious volcanoes, and the crater of which has
scarcely ever been visited."
"Is it extinct?"
"Oh, yes; more than five hundred years."
"Well," replied my uncle, who was frantically locking his legs
together to keep himself from jumping up in the air, "that is where I
mean to begin my geological studies, there on that Seffel - Fessel -
what do you call it?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: becoming, which was rendered the more sensible by the death of one
of the number at his task. Mataafa was involved in the same
trouble. His disaffected speech at a meeting of Atua chiefs was
betrayed by the girls that made the kava, and the man of the future
was called to Apia on safe-conduct, but, after an interview,
suffered to return to his lair. The peculiarly tender treatment of
Mataafa must be explained by his relationship to Tamasese. Laupepa
was of Malietoa blood. The hereditary retainers of the Tupua would
see him exiled even with some complacency. But Mataafa was Tupua
himself; and Tupua men would probably have murmured, and would
perhaps have mutinied, had he been harshly dealt with.
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