| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: since each piece seemed made for personal adornment, while in so
far as he had seen, no Wieroo wore ornaments of any sort.
And also as they advanced the more numerous became the Wieroos
moving hither and thither within the temple. Many now were the
solid red robes and those that were slashed with blue--a
veritable hive of murderers.
At last the party halted in a room in which were many Wieroos who
gathered about Bradley questioning his captors and examining him
and his apparel. One of the party accompanying the Englishman
spoke to a Wieroo that stood beside a door leading from the room.
"Tell Him Who Speaks for Luata," he said, "that Fosh-bal-soj we
Out of Time's Abyss |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: you, and braided very artistically. Ozma has always admired my straw
filling, so I'm sure she'll be pleased with these lovely straw slippers."
"Ozma will be pleased with anything her loving friends give her,"
said the girl. "What I'M worried about, Scarecrow, is what to give
Ozma that she hasn't got already."
"That's what worried me, until I thought of the slippers," said the
Scarecrow. "You'll have to THINK, Dorothy; that's the only way to get
a good idea. If I hadn't such wonderful brains, I'd never have
thought of those straw foot-decorations."
Dorothy left him and went to her room, where she sat down and tried
to think hard. A Pink Kitten was curled up on the window-sill and
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: and water are yet stale and mouldy in my recollection, and though
they did their best, yet the viands that the Children of the Mist
procured for me, poor helpless creatures as they were, were so
unrefreshful to my body, that when enclosed in my armour, whilk I
was fain to leave behind me for expedition's sake, I rattled
therein like the shrivelled kernel in a nut that hath been kept
on to a second Hallowe'en."
"You must take the due means to repair these losses, Major
Dalgetty."
"In troth," answered the soldier, "I shall hardly be able to
compass that, unless my arrears are to be exchanged for present
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