| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: only brave and impetuous by character, but learned in many
sciences, and above all in botany, which he particularly
loved. Thus it fell that, before many months, Fremont
himself, the nominal leader of the troop, courted and bowed
to his opinion.
They had pushed, as I have said, into the still unknown
regions of the West. For some time they followed the track
of Mormon caravans, guiding themselves in that vast and
melancholy desert by the skeletons of men and animals. Then
they inclined their route a little to the north, and, losing
even these dire memorials, came into a country of forbidding
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim
vacancies of space. Well, well, well, they WERE a
superstitious lot. It is all a body can do to conceive
of it.
The poor queen was so scared and humbled that she
was even afraid to hang the composer without first
consulting me. I was very sorry for her -- indeed, any
one would have been, for she was really suffering; so
I was willing to do anything that was reasonable, and
had no desire to carry things to wanton extremities. I
therefore considered the matter thoughtfully, and ended
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Diamond Swan swimming just before them, its long neck
arched proudly, the amethyst eyes gleaming and all the
diamond-sprinkled feathers glistening splendidly under
the rays of the sun.
"That," said Glinda, "is the transformation of Queen
Coo-ce-oh, the haughty and wicked witch who betrayed
the three Adepts at Magic and treated her people like
slaves."
"She's wonderfully beautiful now," remarked the
Frogman.
"It doesn't seem like much of a punishment," said
Glinda of Oz |
