| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: individual label, and by the good Flemish mare you drive, that
you occupy the post of carrier in that great English system of
transport which, with all its defects, is the pride of our
country.'
'Yes, sir,' returned Mr Chandler vaguely, for he hardly knew what
to reply; 'them parcels posts has done us carriers a world of
harm.'
'I am not a prejudiced man,' continued Joseph Finsbury. 'As a
young man I travelled much. Nothing was too small or too obscure
for me to acquire. At sea I studied seamanship, learned the
complicated knots employed by mariners, and acquired the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Who put the air wall around the house?" was the
Scarecrow's question.
"Nimmie Amee did that."
"Nimmie Amee!" they all exclaimed in surprise.
"Yes," answered the rabbit. "She used to live with an
old Witch, who was suddenly destroyed, and when Nimmie
Amee ran away from the Witch's house, she took with her
just one magic formula --pure sorcery it was -- which
enabled her to build this air wall around her house --
the house yonder. It was quite a clever idea, I think,
for it doesn't mar the beauty of the landscape, solid
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: As he lounged up the walk, hand on holster, beady little eyes
glancing to right and left, a kaleidoscope of jumbled pictures spun
in her mind, stories Aunt Pittypat had whispered of attacks on
unprotected women, throat cuttings, houses burned over the heads of
dying women, children bayoneted because they cried, all of the
unspeakable horrors that lay bound up in the name of "Yankee."
Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under
the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp,
anything to escape him. Then she heard his cautious feet on the
front steps and his stealthy tread as he entered the hall and she
knew that escape was cut off. Too cold with fear to move, she
Gone With the Wind |
