| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: magic. All had been destroyed.
Much disappointed, he started to go out again when he stubbed his
toe on the same floor board. That set him thinking. Examining the
board more closely, Kiki found it had been pried up and then nailed
down again in such a manner that it was a little higher than the other
boards. But why had his father taken up the board? Had he hidden
some of his magic tools underneath the floor?
Kiki got a chisel and pried up the board, but found nothing under
it. He was just about to replace the board when it slipped from his
hand and turned over, and he saw something written on the underside of
it. The light was rather dim, so he took the board to the window and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: and strangely lighted, until by sheer dint of gazing my perceptions
became confused, and I stood upon the borderland between illusion and
reality, taken in the snare set for the eyes, and almost light-headed
by reason of the multitudinous changes of the shapes about me.
Imperceptibly a mist gathered about the carven stonework, and I only
beheld it through a haze of fine golden dust, like the motes that
hover in the bars of sunlight slanting through the air of a chamber.
Suddenly the stone lacework of the rose windows gleamed through this
vapor that had made all forms so shadowy. Every moulding, the edges of
every carving, the least detail of the sculpture was dipped in silver.
The sunlight kindled fires in the stained windows, their rich colors
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: of our lives, and to reward us according to our deeds, when the
righteous shall shine forth as the sun, but darkness and
everlasting shame shall cover the sinners. And now, brethren, I
commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able
to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them
which are sanctified."
And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, as it is written,
and prayed again in tears. And he turned him round, and kissed
Barachias, whom he had chosen to their king, and all the
officers. Then came a scene fit, belike, to make one weep. They
all crowded around him, as though his presence meant life to
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