| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: prepared for you. I hope you will like them, and shall expect you to
join me at luncheon."
So Dorothy led her relatives away, and as soon as they were out of the
Throne Room and alone in the corridor, Aunt Em squeezed Dorothy's hand
and said:
"Child, child! How in the world did we ever get here so quick? And
is it all real? And are we to stay here, as she says? And what does
it all mean, anyhow?"
Dorothy laughed.
"Why didn't you tell us what you were goin' to do?" inquired Uncle Henry,
reproachfully. "If I'd known about it, I'd 'a put on my Sunday clothes."
The Emerald City of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: gloomily, going off to a small hut near by to dress. He was saying
to himself: "This fellow will end by giving me away. The last
thing that I . . . No! That mustn't be." And feeling his hand
being forced he discovered the whole extent of his cowardice.
CHAPTER X
That morning wandering about his plantation, more like a frightened
soul than its creator and master, he dodged the white parasol
bobbing up here and there like a buoy adrift on a sea of dark-green
plants. The crop promised to be magnificent, and the fashionable
philosopher of the age took other than a merely scientific interest
in the experiment. His investments were judicious, but he had
Within the Tides |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: comprehenderant atque in vincula coniecerant; tum proelio facto remiserunt
et in petenda pace eius rei culpam in multitudinem contulerunt et propter
imprudentiam ut ignosceretur petiverunt. Caesar questus quod, cum ultro
in continentem legatis missis pacem ab se petissent, bellum sine causa
intulissent, ignoscere imprudentiae dixit obsidesque imperavit;
quorum illi partem statim dederunt, partem ex longinquioribus locis
arcessitam paucis diebus sese daturos dixerunt. Interea suos in agros
remigrare iusserunt, principesque undique convenire et se civitatesque
suas Caesari commendare coeperunt.
His rebus pace confirmata, post diem quartum quam est in Britanniam
ventum naves XVIII, de quibus supra demonstratum est, quae equites
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